Electronic reloading scales

crapshoot said:
Of which you won't notice much , if any significant difference difference/ improvement until you get out past 5-600 yrds and shooting multiple times.
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I struggle with shooting at long distance its not about my ability but about my personal conviction of being a hunter rather than a shooter. Ive hunted most of my life with a Leman Indian Trade rifle. A 54 cal patched lead round ball success depended on my hunting abilities
 
Matt_3479 said:
I’ve been running mine for 6-7 years with 100% reliability and an average of 7800 rifle rounds per year loaded on it.

I like reloading but I also prefer to make every step in it as efficient, and accurate as possible. The a&d scale has proven to be fantastic by thousands of competitions shooters. There are certain things in the reloading room that just make your life easier and this is one of them. The Henderson trimmer is another.

I’d like to state that this is not the average my shooting capabilities but if there were issues it wouldn’t be running it. Once i switched to this scale my group got smaller and my agg for my rifles were smaller across the board. Here are groups from my 25x47, 6bra, 300 Norma, 45 cal smokeless muzzleloader all loaded with the scale

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Thanks for taking the time for sharing this its more an impressive its unbelievable
 
17remhunter said:
I struggle with shooting at long distance its not about my ability but about my personal conviction of being a hunter rather than a shooter. Ive hunted most of my life with a Leman Indian Trade rifle. A 54 cal patched lead round ball success depended on my hunting abilities
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I understand your personal conviction with long distance hunting, and is one of the reason I love bow hunting. On the other hand, taking the time to learn your rifle, hone your skills, and being able to make ethical shots at 300-600 when then trophy or target animal final gives you an opportunity after weeks of scouting, time off work, hundreds or thousands of dollars invested, at that point I don’t care if it’s 15 yards or 500 yards I’m just happy I practice. I spent good money on a smokeless muzzleloader, weeks of practicing with it out too 600 and in (expensive to shoot), scouting, camera’s, bow hunting, just to take the shot at under 50 yards with the smokeless on my personal biggest buck
 
Over the years I have found little difference between weighed and thrown charges using ball or fine grained stick powders(Benchmark) I do throw and trickle coarse stick powders but they mostly sit dormant in my powder storage.

I will say I rarely shoot over 300yards but stretching it on paper to 500 on occasion to see if the rifle is capable.

I decent balance scale will weigh a grain of stick powder. I'm using a pair of RCBS 510 but I have ancient Redding oil dampened scale that is extremely accurate but slow and high maintenance.
 
Shooting is my hobby, so I load a lot for numerous rifles. I load for deer, hogs, prairie dogs, practice, and an occasional competition. When I have 5 or 600 plus rounds to load for a prairie dog hunt, my A&D fx-120 tied to an auto throw and trickier saves me a lot of time and effort. So far (5 years or so?) I’ve had no issues. You enter the charge wieght, and hit start. I have my brass and bullets on a side table. Pick up the dropped powder, put it in the brass, put container back on scale, load bullet, turn around and next powder charge is ready to go.
Need it for accurate loads? No.
Expensive, yes. So if you don’t load a whole lot, then why bother. There are a couple of systems available now.
 
I been using electronic scales for quite some time. I had and wore out a Lyman 1500 and replaced it with the newer Gen 6. The Gen 6 was considerably smaller and I like most of it. It didn't have a trickle feature but worked around that. The key pad started messing up and I called Lyman. They said if they didn't have the parts to repair it they would sell me a new model at a discount. I thought it was newer than that but I found my receipt and the unit was seven years old. (Funny how time slips away) I replaced it with an RCBS. It took a little time to get use to it but I think I like it more than the Lyman Gen 6. I loaded 50 rounds of 223 yesterday and it threw one load a grain over and three about a grain light. I can't really complain about that.
 
I have been using the RCBS Chargemaster Combo for probably 8 years and have had zero issues with it. It has definitely improved my reloading workflow and most definitely has sped up the process. I calibrate mine every time I use it and it is a simple 30-45 second process. I would not want to go back to a beam scale.
 
the older I get the more charges are just thrown to include all of them I think. I use a harrells for rifle stuff and a uniflow for pistol. I haven't really seen a difference at all between weighed or not. either way I want my load to be forgiving enough that I would never see it. If not I want a different load. my load development is tailored and chosen by what shot best with DIFFERENT charge weights in the case. I pick the best cluster I get at close to the max speed I can get. thats my load.
 
Get a Supertrickler and don’t look back. I’ve used 2 RCBS ChargeMasters for years. I would get an SD around 20fps When I was meticulous with my loads. With the Supertrickler they are down to under 10 and many 5 shot groups under 6. It’s super simple to set up and it’s almost like a Ronco Rotisserie…….set it and forget it once it’s warmed up and gets your load dialed in.
 
JB338 said:
Get a Supertrickler and don’t look back. I’ve used 2 RCBS ChargeMasters for years. I would get an SD around 20fps When I was meticulous with my loads. With the Supertrickler they are down to under 10 and many 5 shot groups under 6. It’s super simple to set up and it’s almost like a Ronco Rotisserie…….set it and forget it once it’s warmed up and gets your load dialed in.
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JB. If you were planning on buying a new digital what would you buy?
 
Seriously, it’s not the cheapest but the name of the reloading game to a great deal is consistency and my velocity spreads and SDs tightened right up after I got the hang of using this. I looked at both Supertrickler and Autotrickler V3 & V4 and watched numerous videos on each of them. Decided on the Supertrickler. That being said, the RCBS ChargeMasters are pretty good. I would compare the weight of the throw of each and it was spot on to the 10th (the scale Supertrickler uses measures to the 1/100th grain) which looks to be +/- about 3 kernels of H1000 which is all I’ve used it for so far since my reloads are for my 7PRC. If you can afford it get a Supertrickler. If you can’t drop that kind of coin RCBS ChargeMasters are a nice option.
 
another vote for the chargemasters!

i love my 1500 so much - it was my first big upgrade to my reloading kit and to this day my most used one.

i lucked out a couple years ago and was able to get a 2nd one, used, but in like new condition - didnt even have a graphite stain in the main hopper! - and its even nicer now when i'm loading a lot of ammo to not have to wait for a pan to finish trickling.

the first one was a game changer, the 2nd was like stepping into a whole separate game.

chargemasters for the win!
 
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