Its time for me to upgrade my reloading scale. It seems the standard for which all others are compared to is the FX120i. I am prepared to cough up the coin. I just want to ask if there's anything else out there on the market that I am not aware of that can compete with this scale?
My main goal here is repeatability. I am not so much concerned with the .02grn resolution (Though it will be nice). My current setup does not produce repeatable results. I can produce very good SD's with my 0.10grn scale, but one loading to the next can produce 30-40FPS swings and take me in and out of my pressure nodes.
I have several lower-cost digital scales ( under 100$) and I am not satisfied with my repeatability.
This is what brings my setup into question: I loaded a OCW test this past saturday. I was in the process of marking all my brass with charge weights when someone knocked on my front door. 5 minutes later, I returned to find that my daughter had lovingly re-arranged all my cartridges to her liking. Most of which had not been labeled.
Later that night, I re-loaded the same OCW test with all the same components. After shooting this, I compared the few pieces that I labeled from the first loading, to the same charge weights from the 2nd loading, and my velocity results were very different. 40 FPS different. One load had an SD of 10.1, the other was 1.7. tthe only thing separating these identical loads, was the time at which they were loaded on the same day.
Ive always just dealt with the velocity swings on match morning, but adjusting my data is getting old and its time to up my game.
My main goal here is repeatability. I am not so much concerned with the .02grn resolution (Though it will be nice). My current setup does not produce repeatable results. I can produce very good SD's with my 0.10grn scale, but one loading to the next can produce 30-40FPS swings and take me in and out of my pressure nodes.
I have several lower-cost digital scales ( under 100$) and I am not satisfied with my repeatability.
This is what brings my setup into question: I loaded a OCW test this past saturday. I was in the process of marking all my brass with charge weights when someone knocked on my front door. 5 minutes later, I returned to find that my daughter had lovingly re-arranged all my cartridges to her liking. Most of which had not been labeled.
Later that night, I re-loaded the same OCW test with all the same components. After shooting this, I compared the few pieces that I labeled from the first loading, to the same charge weights from the 2nd loading, and my velocity results were very different. 40 FPS different. One load had an SD of 10.1, the other was 1.7. tthe only thing separating these identical loads, was the time at which they were loaded on the same day.Ive always just dealt with the velocity swings on match morning, but adjusting my data is getting old and its time to up my game.
