^This^
I use the dippers too, it's a cheap alternative to using a powder measure since I know my OCD won't let me NOT scale every charge anyway.
I simply use the dipper that gets me just below the desired charge weight and then trickle up, it may be slightly heaped or not quite full to do that.
Most powder measures don't work well with cylindrical powder, it wants to jam and then tries to shear the sticks of powder.
I'd sooner have the simplicity of dipping a scoop of powder, dump it in the scale pan, then trickle up to the charge weight I want. That is usually arrived at within a single kernel of stick powder.
It takes a few seconds longer, but time isn't a big deal for me. I reload to relax and spend time in my chosen hobby, not dash through the process.
On the flip side, I load shotgun using a MEC 600 with volumetric powder and shot bushings. My powder charges vary about 0.3-0.4 gr from drop to drop. That doesn't amount to a hill of beans in a shotgun load, the clays really can't tell the difference.
Loading rifle ammo for long range shooting is a totally different ball of wax, obviously.
Each to their own.
Exactly. Any seasoned reloader would agree.
