I have used the dippers for years. While they will never give you precision, they WILL, and did, provide satisfactory results for pistol and for hunting rounds for many years (and still do for .45ACP). They will NOT provide MOA consistent ammo for long range hunting, and they did not provide consistency for acceptable groupings for anything over 200yds. Thus, the reason I was so frustrated in my early years of reloading. While I was able to shrink the groups in my 1898 Lee Enfield Carbine slightly over factory ammo, I was never able to comfortably make a 300yd shot on an animal, so I was never happy (I was, of course using only the most primitive system, the Lee Loader). Long range shots were beyond me for some years and I actually had to rely on baiting, glassing, stalking, busting to get a deer, but it was better than the single shot .410 or 20ga I started with.
I only use the dippers now to load an undercharge into my scale pan and trickle up from there (and I use that same dipper again to trickle).
I only use the dippers now to load an undercharge into my scale pan and trickle up from there (and I use that same dipper again to trickle).
