powder scale for high production reloading
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What sort of reloading are you doing? Unless you are shooting at really long ranges, thrown charges are generally good enough. Powder measure are the norm in short range benchrest, a game that places the highest demand on rifles for accuracy.
The fastest way to measure every charge would be one of the electronic dispensers, like the RCBS Chargemaster, but you still will not be able to dispense 500 charges in an hour.
The fastest way to measure every charge would be one of the electronic dispensers, like the RCBS Chargemaster, but you still will not be able to dispense 500 charges in an hour.
My say on that is that if someone is loading 500 rounds an hour they are using a progressive press, like a Dillon, and not using a scale because you don't weigh charges on a progressive. I'm all ears if there is such a scale though that is somehow integrated into a progressive. That being said, the RCBS charge master is pretty quick if you reprogram it. While you're seating a bullet, it's throwing another charge. I find it very efficient but not 500 rounds per hour efficient. Less than half I'd estimate.
If you think you need to weigh your charges, you ought to reconsider your throughput.
If you really need to reload 500 an hour, you should be setting yourself up with a powder measure and playing with it until you are happy with the charges it throws as the machinery runs, easy as that.
Or be willing to buy a bank of six or so Chargemaster dispensers and hope that they all stay consistent with each other.
My two bits, anyways.
Cheers
Trev
If you really need to reload 500 an hour, you should be setting yourself up with a powder measure and playing with it until you are happy with the charges it throws as the machinery runs, easy as that.
Or be willing to buy a bank of six or so Chargemaster dispensers and hope that they all stay consistent with each other.
My two bits, anyways.
Cheers
Trev
For that amount of re-loading, you will be using some form of progressive press. As already mentioned, you don't weigh every round. Get things setup and dump a "check weight" onto the scale every (how ever many makes you happy, for me it's every twenty or thirty rounds ..) and see what the scale says. If it has wandered out a little, with loads I make and how I use them, it doesn't matter a great deal, it's close enough for me and what accuracy I am capable of. Now these are pistol loads I'm talking about, for any and all of my rifle loads, I use a single stage and do weigh every rounds powder charge.
Not sure .. but are you wanting the mechanical style or electronic?? Don't recall what I paid for my RCBS, but it's the mechanical style, not electronic and I think it was under $150
A quick look at the RCBS site shows three mechanical scales for under $150 (new), but I'm sure if you hunt around you can find larger capacity ones for cheaper.
no offense, but when I saw the actual post vs the subject line, I can't stop laughing as I was thinking about some commercial grade press. 
500/hr is hardly high production. my Dillon 550 can do that. and Dillon 1050 goes up to 1200/hr. just the regular setup from any decent progressive press would do with the power measure that comes with it, not powder scale.
powder scale is weight for trial loads, or extreme precision shooting which requires weight the charge ONE-by-ONE. there is no way to get 500/Hr with a scale at home.
500/hr is hardly high production. my Dillon 550 can do that. and Dillon 1050 goes up to 1200/hr. just the regular setup from any decent progressive press would do with the power measure that comes with it, not powder scale.
powder scale is weight for trial loads, or extreme precision shooting which requires weight the charge ONE-by-ONE. there is no way to get 500/Hr with a scale at home.
