Dropping Ball Powder Charges without Weighing?

[Castle Rock]

Can you elaborate?

I will do a video

A good reloading block that fits the cases without a lot of slop and is easy to hold will quickly pay for itself when charging from the powder measure. These CNC machined aluminum blocks off eBay are my favorite. Plastic ones made from recycled Tikka bolt shrouds may work just as well, but the metal has a nice solid feel to it.
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45 ACP factory ammo trays work great

 

[Steve300xcw]

Someone probably already said it, but charging directly into cases without removing them from the load block, it’s extra important to look down into all the cases with a flashlight to make sure none were missed. For some reason my brain will skip an entire row from time to time.

A good reloading block that fits the cases without a lot of slop and is easy to hold will quickly pay for itself when charging from the powder measure. These CNC machined aluminum blocks off eBay are my favorite. Plastic ones made from recycled Tikka bolt shrouds may work just as well, but the metal has a nice solid feel to it.
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$30 for a loading tray? I'll pass on that. Have an old rcbs one floating around. But seem to grab an old tray outta a box of 44's more often than not.

 

[flyfisher117]

I do it all the time for loads I'm not particularly worried about consistency at long range. Even on my single stage I can bust out a few hundred 223 in short order.

I do like others mention and lift the whole loading tray up to the thrower. I have a bench lamp with a daylight bulb so once I charge them all I swivel it over top and visually check each case for powder and fill volume.

Just a few months ago I had one that visually I could see the fill volume was wrong. I dumped it out to weigh it and this guy crawled out.

 

[doc holiday13]

its not an issue depending on powder type. I have a powder throw that makes steel ringing ammo. My RCBS powder throw drop soo well that I'd do a PRS match with them if the caliber was a PRS caliber. Even throwing varget its pretty dang accurate. But my charge master is fast enough that I'll use it just to be certain of my powder. It keeps SD fairly low.

 

[Castle Rock]

How do you put a video here

 

[General RE LEE]

How do you put a video here

Best way is to upload it to YouTube and then copy and paste the link.

 

[jfk69]

I do it all the time for loads I'm not particularly worried about consistency at long range. Even on my single stage I can bust out a few hundred 223 in short order.

I do like others mention and lift the whole loading tray up to the thrower. I have a bench lamp with a daylight bulb so once I charge them all I swivel it over top and visually check each case for powder and fill volume.

Just a few months ago I had one that visually I could see the fill volume was wrong. I dumped it out to weigh it and this guy crawled out.

Should have lit him up lol!

 

[General RE LEE]

So far the three 5 shot groups I have shot of this load where I skipped weighing each charge has been under a minute. Ramshot TAC meters nicely and also works well in 6 ARC.

 

[waspocrew]

Got my RCBS unit mounted today. Threw some N110 in there (very small extruded powder) and weighed 20 charges. Majority were 12.6 gr with just a few going 0.1 over/under. This will be a game changer for 300 BLK, 223, and possibly 6 ARC.

 

[General RE LEE]

I tried sticking the case up to the mouth of my Hornady hopper and was getting some spillage.

It’s just as quick and easy to remove the case from the loading block, hold the case and funnel together and drop it. Quicker than loading to a pan and then to the funnel.

I’ve seen no loss in accuracy dropping ball powder charges once it’s metering the charge correctly.

First 3 shots of the day with my 6 ARC Howa Mini and Ramshot TAC.

 

[General RE LEE]

So I learned that my Hornady powder measure has a small and large cartridge dispenser. I was sticking my 6ARC case up to the large dispenser attachment. I found the small cartridge attachment and will try it again but certain it will work.

It's going to be fun dropping 50 charges in no time.