Dropping Ball Powder Charges without Weighing?

[General RE LEE]

I make a point of using ball powder in every cartridge shoot so I can so that I can set up a powder dropper on a turret or progressive press. This way, besides an occasional quality assurance check, I don’t have to mess with it again.

Staball 6.5 for 6.5 CM?

 

[4090Sharps]

Staball 6.5 for 6.5 CM?

I haven’t had a chance to try it yet. I use Superformance when I load 6.5 CM for family since I’m sitting on a lot of it, but don’t shoot the cartridge myself.

It looks like a great powder, but was too fast for my 22 CM, so didn’t pick any up.

 

[waspocrew]

Picked up a used RCBS powder thrower and stand for $60 this morning after reading this thread (and a few others).

I don’t use a ton of ball powders, but for 223, I have about 10# of TAC ready to go. Sounds like this should speed up loading significantly.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

Picked up a used RCBS powder thrower and stand for $60 this morning after reading this thread (and a few others).

I don’t use a ton of ball powders, but for 223, I have about 10# of TAC ready to go. Sounds like this should speed up loading significantly.

This is the reason I’ve been looking at getting one, I don’t need to stare at the charge master lite loading 50 or more rounds of 223. It’s tedious.

 

[General RE LEE]

Picked up a used RCBS powder thrower and stand for $60 this morning after reading this thread (and a few others).

I don’t use a ton of ball powders, but for 223, I have about 10# of TAC ready to go. Sounds like this should speed up loading significantly.

Been reloading and measuring each charge for years so it was liberating dropping charges in the little pan and dropping right in the case funnel. Loaded a 50 round tray in half the time of measuring each charge and probably 1/4 the time of running my Hornady electric charger.

 

[seand]

Been reloading and measuring each charge for years so it was liberating dropping charges in the little pan and dropping right in the case funnel. Loaded a 50 round tray in half the time of measuring each charge and probably 1/4 the time of running my Hornady electric charger.

It’s much faster to just load up the block with 50 cases and lift the whole block up and charge each case direct from the powder drop tube. Move the tray from case to case dropping powder direct in each one until you charge all 50 cases before you set the block down.

All of those little movements and individually handling cases or using a funnel and pan the way most guys do it adds up to a lot unnecessary time spent at the bench. It doesn’t seem like it would but it’s significant. Add a case kicker and it’s impressive how quick a single stage can be.