Looking for a dispenser for Titegroup/trailboss

[Sigfla]

I am thinking about adding a Frankfort arsenal manual dispenser specifically to dispense low weight charges or Titegroup and potentially trailboss for subsonic 45/70 loads. 12-14 grains max. Any advise or suggestions here? I do not want to use my chargemaster for this and need a

 

[Sigfla]

Looks like an RCBS little dandy is just what I needed for Titegroup

 

[xr650rRider]

I used a RCBS micrometer adjust powder measure on Pro2000 progressive for years with Titegroup down to 4.5 grains. I quit using Titegroup as it can be very dangerous. You can end up with multiple charges in a case since it's so low volume.

 

[dantiff2]

Lee! I know it’s too cheap to be good, right? This thing is amazing repeatable! I don’t know what little gremlins are in there but whatever it is, it just works! Only thing I’ve found to throw constantly with bigger powder and flake style.
Dan

Lee Perfect Powder Measure

Lee Precision has been making affordable, high quality reloading equipment for over 50 years. The Lee Perfect Powder Measure is no exception. This...

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[seagate]

Lee! I know it’s too cheap to be good, right? This thing is amazing repeatable! I don’t know what little gremlins are in there but whatever it is, it just works! Only thing I’ve found to throw constantly with bigger powder and flake style.
Dan

Lee Perfect Powder Measure

Lee Precision has been making affordable, high quality reloading equipment for over 50 years. The Lee Perfect Powder Measure is no exception. This...

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What he said^^^^

 

[divingin]

Lee! I know it’s too cheap to be good, right?

I used a couple of Lee Classics for a long time. They worked really well on a lot of different powders, ranging from flake pistol to IMR4064 (I don't think I ever loaded anything coarser than that.) They were as accurate as any other measure I tried, and were usually half to a quarter the price. The only downside was that the rubber wiper wore out eventually. But for the 30 or 40 bucks, they were well worth it.

 

[dantiff2]

I used a couple of Lee Classics for a long time. They worked really well on a lot of different powders, ranging from flake pistol to IMR4064 (I don't think I ever loaded anything coarser than that.) They were as accurate as any other measure I tried, and were usually half to a quarter the price. The only downside was that the rubber wiper wore out eventually. But for the 30 or 40 bucks, they were well worth it.

Not my experience. I can't get my RCBS uniflow to come even close with anything other than ball powder. It's not even playing ball in the same state as my Lee. I see 4 to 6 tenths difference between throws with flake and extruded from rcbs.
My Lee will throw three, four, maybe five in a row, exactly the same. I've seen it only off by 1 or 2 tenths over ten throws into a pan! I checked close to one hundred throws with unique and varget and 1 tenth out is the "off throw".
Dan

 

[kd4avp]

Lee! I know it’s too cheap to be good, right? This thing is amazing repeatable! I don’t know what little gremlins are in there but whatever it is, it just works! Only thing I’ve found to throw constantly with bigger powder and flake style.
Dan

Lee Perfect Powder Measure

Lee Precision has been making affordable, high quality reloading equipment for over 50 years. The Lee Perfect Powder Measure is no exception. This...

www.midwayusa.com

Yep! This is what I use for Titegroup. Works like a champ. Have not tried Trailboss. Will have to give that a go. I keep Titegroup handy all the time in my Lee. Cant beat the price!

 

[Sigfla]

Amazon reviews have me nervous about the Lee. Seems like a design change was made and it now has a different hopper. We will see once my RCBS comes in. It it doesn’t work as needed I will look again at the Lee. I do like the black Frankford Arsenal that comes with a stand though!

 

[TonyinKY]

I’m getting ready to put a RCBS Little Dandy powder measure on EBay. It has two of the larger rotors with it and a new hopper. PM me if you’re interested.

 

[seagate]

The new hopper works fine it has a screw on cap you can also screw on the 1lb powder powder container if you wish but I don't works the same ..

 

[charlie b]

I used Lee measures for many years. Perfect, auto disk, auto drum. They all worked as well or better than the old Lyman I had. Only difference was they don't 'feel' as sturdy as a cast iron one. Used the auto disk on my progressives (also Lee) and it did an admirable job with pistol loads.

The Perfect with the metal body would usually dispense 25gn charges of Varget or similar down to +/- 0.1gn with the majority being right on (bell curve). The volume scale matches the Lee tables for powder density so you can get close on the first throw.

Caution, ball powder can leak a bit on any of them. Not a lot, just enough to be a nuisance. The key for me was to clean it each time I used it.

 

[ToddKS]

Tightgroup and Trail Boss are two completely different problem statements.

Tightgroup is fairly consistent out of most powder measures. I have no issues with consistency on my Dillon powder measure on a 1050. I have also used Lee, RCBS, and Redding powder droppers with good results before I switched to the 1050. The only issue with the Lee is that the plastic wears over time and the powder tends to get into areas where is shouldn't and cause binding. This was after extended use however.

When I was using Trail Boss I never found a great solution due to the large flake size. The best consistency I got was from an RCBS with a couple taps at the top and bottom of each stroke to settle the powder. That said with that powder I wasn't terribly worried about variance.