358Rooster
CGN Regular
- Location
- Central Saskatchewan
I've been very pleased with mine. I've had it for nearly five years - I believe it's a gen 2. I did have some significant troubles with it at one point: zero wandered like crazy until I figured out that the plastic cover was a static bomb. Removing that POS solved it. As well, I've found it sensitive to room temperature consistency and especially to air movement.
Precision and repeatability depends largely on the powder used, but I am seriously impressed with how consistent it really is, especially given the price of the thing. Larger stick powders are naturally harder to expect a high degree of precision. My most common powders are H50BMG, N570, H4831, H4350, N540, Varget, and CFE223. All of these measure very consistently, with some outliers, of course, but very few overthrows across the board and in no instance have I had any charge vary by more than .08 grains as measured on my FX-120.
Ball powders that I have used (CFE223 and H335) tend to be quite messy. They like to bounce out of the pan and they are very prone to static electricity. In a way, the powder being affected by static is kinda good - if you see this happening, you'll know to do something about it because the scale sure isn't going to like it.
I've found that the most critical things to do are:
Precision and repeatability depends largely on the powder used, but I am seriously impressed with how consistent it really is, especially given the price of the thing. Larger stick powders are naturally harder to expect a high degree of precision. My most common powders are H50BMG, N570, H4831, H4350, N540, Varget, and CFE223. All of these measure very consistently, with some outliers, of course, but very few overthrows across the board and in no instance have I had any charge vary by more than .08 grains as measured on my FX-120.
Ball powders that I have used (CFE223 and H335) tend to be quite messy. They like to bounce out of the pan and they are very prone to static electricity. In a way, the powder being affected by static is kinda good - if you see this happening, you'll know to do something about it because the scale sure isn't going to like it.
I've found that the most critical things to do are:
- leave it plugged in unless it gets used very infrequently
- be diligent with static control, ambient temperature, and air movement when in use
- I ditched the scale dust cover entirely, and I leave a dryer sheet stored in the hopper
- perform scale calibration before each loading session and before performing powder calibration
- perform powder calibration for each different powder
- I've never bothered to find out if it will store powder types for this, but I doubt it will. As someone stated earlier, it takes less than a minute to perform.
