Looking for a good weigh scale.
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Unless you're talking about a situation where you can control wind or air movement, I don't believe such a scale exists.
Are you talking about for your bench at home????
How well does it perform at a match where there is wind?
Reloading under such conditions is often a requirement.
Most shooters used a precision "powder throw" instead of weighing their loads.
With some practice, 1/10 grain difference between charges is easily doable.
How well does it perform at a match where there is wind?
Reloading under such conditions is often a requirement.
Most shooters used a precision "powder throw" instead of weighing their loads.
With some practice, 1/10 grain difference between charges is easily doable.
An advantage to the FX120 is also that it can be used with Autotrickler, Super Trickler or Ingenuity Precision electronic dispensers. It is the cheapest of the certified scales you can buy for commercial use. It's a much better scale than comes with the setups like a Matchmaster.
Tested my handloads done with the FX120i last Sunday.
ES and SD cut in half!
Previous scale was a Lyman Gen 6 dispenser/scale.
Also was running a test on humidity absorption, 50 rounds total. First 25, was powder loaded and bullet seated right away. Second 20 rounds, was powder loaded, bullet dropped on brass, not seated. Last 5 rounds; powder loaded left open. Elapsed time from load to final 5 seated, 36 hours.
First 25; ES 24.1 SD 5.2, Second 25; ES 35.6 SD 9.3 Total 50 rounds; ES 30.0 SD 7.1
Best 5 rounds group; ES 4.3 SD 1.5, that 5 rounds were from the first 25 round group.
Really happy with the performance of the scale.
ES and SD cut in half!
Previous scale was a Lyman Gen 6 dispenser/scale.
Also was running a test on humidity absorption, 50 rounds total. First 25, was powder loaded and bullet seated right away. Second 20 rounds, was powder loaded, bullet dropped on brass, not seated. Last 5 rounds; powder loaded left open. Elapsed time from load to final 5 seated, 36 hours.
First 25; ES 24.1 SD 5.2, Second 25; ES 35.6 SD 9.3 Total 50 rounds; ES 30.0 SD 7.1
Best 5 rounds group; ES 4.3 SD 1.5, that 5 rounds were from the first 25 round group.
Really happy with the performance of the scale.
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I have a Mettler Toledo AB204S for sale.
For more details: https://www.mt.com/ca/en/home/phase...ighing_Solutions/Analytical/AB-S/AB204-S.html
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I have a vintage RCBS 5-10 scale from the 70's
I used them 53 years ago in university and it took forever for the swing arm to stop oscillating..
Thanks for input everyone.
Prove it
Prove what? I was laughing at your sassy response, as it is the correct response.
My sincere apologies.
I was actually hoping you had found one that worked under such conditions.
I have a special "range box" from back in my Hunter Bench Rest days, where I could use a beam balance with decent precision, but it required a lot of very tedious set up and of course some sort of set up area with a roof at the very least.
Most of the ranges back then had rudimentary shelters, which might or might not keep the rain off you at best.
It involved opening the box from the side, using that side wall as a roof, sliding out a tray and setting up a scale, then putting up a wind barrier all around so you didn't have to wait for the scale to settle down and become reliable within a tenth of a grain.
After a few such menageries, I finally learned how to properly use the lever operated powder throw in a consistent manner so I could get it to drop charges consistently within a tenth of a grain of each other, with the powder of choice.
Nice powder measure. It could be adjusted in the field to be within two tenths of the desired median measured throw.
This was handy, as powders were quite temperature sensitive back then and our records indicated how much to increase or decrease our powder weights between strings for consistent velocities.
Whether it made a "real" difference or not ???????????? It made us feel like we were on top of the situation at the moment.
I was actually hoping you had found one that worked under such conditions.
I have a special "range box" from back in my Hunter Bench Rest days, where I could use a beam balance with decent precision, but it required a lot of very tedious set up and of course some sort of set up area with a roof at the very least.
Most of the ranges back then had rudimentary shelters, which might or might not keep the rain off you at best.
It involved opening the box from the side, using that side wall as a roof, sliding out a tray and setting up a scale, then putting up a wind barrier all around so you didn't have to wait for the scale to settle down and become reliable within a tenth of a grain.
After a few such menageries, I finally learned how to properly use the lever operated powder throw in a consistent manner so I could get it to drop charges consistently within a tenth of a grain of each other, with the powder of choice.
Nice powder measure. It could be adjusted in the field to be within two tenths of the desired median measured throw.
This was handy, as powders were quite temperature sensitive back then and our records indicated how much to increase or decrease our powder weights between strings for consistent velocities.
Whether it made a "real" difference or not ???????????? It made us feel like we were on top of the situation at the moment.
