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.

 

[TimberHunter]

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.

I anticipate about 1k rounds a year through the 223 trainer. I was thinking of loading myself, not to save much but to potentially have a bit more consistent ammo as the AAC has been a bit hit or miss. But it’s the easy button for 99% of practicing.


I have a frankford intellidropper but ideally looking to throw charges with something like a Lee perfect powder measure (or other brand) and get away from having to actually measure powder


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[WSMHNTR]

I'v had an RCBS Chargemaster for probably 12+ years and have no complaints. Always dead on when checked against a beam scale. I have been looking at going to an auto trickler at some point but it's hard to justify that kind of money for the shooting I do these days/

 

[Chris in TN]

I anticipate about 1k rounds a year through the 223 trainer. I was thinking of loading myself, not to save much but to potentially have a bit more consistent ammo as the AAC has been a bit hit or miss. But it’s the easy button for 99% of practicing.


I have a frankford intellidropper but ideally looking to throw charges with something like a Lee perfect powder measure (or other brand) and get away from having to actually measure powder


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If I couldn't get AAC ammo (and I recognize that it has its limitations) I don't think I'd have any issue throwing 1000 charges with a RCBS uniflow.

I used to do that with 75BTHPs. I figured out the 5.56 rifle we shoot the most now pretty much shoots to the same zero with 69/75/77 AAC as the 77TMK handloads I use, plus or minus a meaningless bit of elevation.