Dillon powder measure

fingers284 said:
I am interested in what you consider "better". I have two Dillon measures allocated to titegroup powder (.38 sp, .45 colt) both probably set 15 years ago (upwards of 100,000 loads since then) for my preferred load and have never had a variance of more than tenth of a grain on every re-check I have done since.
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I find I have less variation with my Hornady than my Dillon powder mesure. Not a scientific study, but I have both and used both for multiple thousands rounds. When loading 9mm set to 4.1gn of Titegroup, on the Hornady it drop most of the time 4.1 with some odd drop at 4.0 or 4.2gn. Same caliber on my XL650 with the Dillon powder mesure I can get odd powder drop from 3.9 to 4.3gn sometime. Also I find the adjustment is more precise on the Hornady.

That's my experience, I like both presses but for different reason.
 
Of course the smaller the dose the less effect inaccuracies have, look at them percentage wise.

A fine fellow on CGN has pointed me towards the quick measure which looks really good.

Some more testing I have done has proven some points to me. I am dumping 46.0gr of Varget into a 308 case. Some interesting things I have found with all the measures I have. If you stop loading for even a few minutes your next throw will be heavy and on a progressive press the inevitable shaking and pounding helps to add to the problem. Like all shooting, you must do everything the same every time. To this end I now run all my brass through a FL sizer as a seperate operation, it's very fast with the case feeder and i can pay my kids to do this part.

Cheers!
 
Heh hatman, I like it when my data is confirmed.
"The Dillon bar type powder measure is a piece of crap for anything other than pistol powders. Even with ball powders it spills powder about every 10 round from a delayed fall of the powder funnel."
 
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