Throwing powder - what do you use?

[Chris in TN]

I don't load to the volume a lot of you guys do - I have accepted that most of my practice 5.56 will come from Palmetto State Armory; I only reload 77TMKs for 5.56 at a fairly low volume and then I load bigger calibers, also at a fairly low volume.

I weigh every charge, however, perhaps relevant to this thread, I have, for decades now, used Lee Dippers to 'throw' my charges into the scale pan. I've gotten fairly quick with that. I loaded a few rounds this morning. Good enough that I'd tell any reloader to invest in a set of them.

There are loads I can *almost* scoop and charge. I don't, but I can get close enough that I'd be comfortable doing it with certain moderate loads of short range practice ammo.

Also, once in a while I will load handgun ammo using a RCBS Uniflow(?). I've also loaded a fair bit of 5.56 and 6.8spc with it over the years and found it perfectly acceptable for ~400 yard practice ammo.

 

[waspocrew]

RCBS uniflow for ball powder and an RCBS for the larger extruded powders. Both work well.

 

[hoooogan]

I had great luck with the Hornady Auto Charge Pro before my OCD started kicking in. I probably loaded 1000 rounds on it before my brain "needed" 0.01gr resolution.

I now use my RCBS Competition powder measure to get me close, then I trickle down to +/- 0.01gr on a TRX-925 scale. I used to use (still does double duty) the powder measure for fine grain pistol powder (Win231) and it metered super accurately. I test two to three 10 throw weights and it is consistently +/- 0.1gr. But with H4350, i've seen about +/- 1.0 grains at 41.0. The large kernels just fit differently on each throw.