204 AR
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I started 30 years ago with a lee "safety" scale. They work, but are a pos really.
Fast forward 12 or 13 years, and some buddies I helped load for bought me a RCBS electronic scale and dispenser, the 2 piece one made by Pact. I've been using that for roughly 17 years now I guess, and it's been great. It does throw over occasionally, and it's not the fastest. But I've been researching all the new models, watching lots of videos. For a grand you can get the v3 scale/dispenser/trickler, and it's slick for sure. For 3800, you can get the prometheus, and wow that's the bomb if you need it and can swing it. For 250 or so on sale, you can get the RCBS lite, which most reviews give the nod to on the amateur level scales. I was thinking of going that route when I upgrade. Typical charge times are roughly 30-35 seconds from the videos I watched. It throws fast, then crawls to the finish, resulting in almost no over throws.
Then yesterday I watched a half hour video of an older gent from back east somewhere (accent gave it away) who said save your money, throw your charges and trickle up on a balance beam. He set it all up, had an old Lyman scale, a uniflow with the small drum, and a simple trickler. When he got going, he was throwing, weighing, and trickling in an average of 12 seconds! And every charge was perfect, certainly as close as any common electronic.
So today I swung by Walmart (yeah I know, but they had the stuff) and bought a new RCBS 500 scale and a trickler. Already have a couple powder measures. I got it set up like he had his, with scale at eye level and measure to the left for a right hander. It's so much faster than the dispenser it's not even funny. And no over throws unless you get careless and too fast. I think I'm sold for now. I will get the small drum for the uniflow I think. He made good points on that being more accurate and cutting fewer kernels making it smoother. Only measures 50 grains though.
Fast forward 12 or 13 years, and some buddies I helped load for bought me a RCBS electronic scale and dispenser, the 2 piece one made by Pact. I've been using that for roughly 17 years now I guess, and it's been great. It does throw over occasionally, and it's not the fastest. But I've been researching all the new models, watching lots of videos. For a grand you can get the v3 scale/dispenser/trickler, and it's slick for sure. For 3800, you can get the prometheus, and wow that's the bomb if you need it and can swing it. For 250 or so on sale, you can get the RCBS lite, which most reviews give the nod to on the amateur level scales. I was thinking of going that route when I upgrade. Typical charge times are roughly 30-35 seconds from the videos I watched. It throws fast, then crawls to the finish, resulting in almost no over throws.
Then yesterday I watched a half hour video of an older gent from back east somewhere (accent gave it away) who said save your money, throw your charges and trickle up on a balance beam. He set it all up, had an old Lyman scale, a uniflow with the small drum, and a simple trickler. When he got going, he was throwing, weighing, and trickling in an average of 12 seconds! And every charge was perfect, certainly as close as any common electronic.
So today I swung by Walmart (yeah I know, but they had the stuff) and bought a new RCBS 500 scale and a trickler. Already have a couple powder measures. I got it set up like he had his, with scale at eye level and measure to the left for a right hander. It's so much faster than the dispenser it's not even funny. And no over throws unless you get careless and too fast. I think I'm sold for now. I will get the small drum for the uniflow I think. He made good points on that being more accurate and cutting fewer kernels making it smoother. Only measures 50 grains though.
