For those who sort primers....

[Leo_B]

The grams people are talking about is using that weighing setting on the scale and that is much finer than weighing in grains..
The gram setting on your scale will allow you to weigh to .0001 grams, ie .1 milligram.
A very small weight indeed. One grain = 64.799 miligrams

Guess it's one of those things I'd have to see in operation then as it doesn't make sense unseen.

 

[Fire Dog]

Guess it's one of those things I'd have to see in operation then as it doesn't make sense unseen.

Get your scale out and toggle through the weight settings and you will find the gram setting.
Then take your primers and with a pair of tweezers start setting them on the scale and you will find that the ones that you weighed in the “grain” setting and found to be identical are now showing variances.
A bit like the difference of a scale weighing in pounds or ounces…

 

[Leo_B]

Get your scale out and toggle through the weight settings and you will find the gram setting.
Then take your primers and with a pair of tweezers start setting them on the scale and you will find that the ones that you weighed in the “grain” setting and found to be identical are now showing variances.
A bit like the difference of a scale weighing in pounds or ounces…

Yes, but pounds would be grams and ounces would be grains. That's like saying if I weighed in ounces and found them the same then switch the scale to pounds and they'll weigh differently. Pounds and grams = big, ounces and grains = little. I'm jus'a gonna hafta call Jethro to help on this'un and go back to Miz Perkins for a cipherin refresher. It ain't a gonna make no sense no other way.

 

[Fire Dog]

Yes, but pounds would be grams and ounces would be grains. That's like saying if I weighed in ounces and found them the same then switch the scale to pounds and they'll weigh differently. Pounds and grams = big, ounces and grains = little. I'm jus'a gonna hafta call Jethro to help on this'un and go back to Miz Perkins for a cipherin refresher. It ain't a gonna make no sense no other way.

Just try changing the weight setting to grams and you will see what I am talking about.. {:~)

 

[Leo_B]

Just try changing the weight setting to grams and you will see what I am talking about.. {:~)

I don't think my beam scale has a switch for that.

 

[rwj]

Yup… it’s winter!

 

[Tod Hendricks]

I weigh with a Sartorius Entris-64, it goes .001 grains. I just sort in grains to the hundredth IE 3.79, 3.80, 3.81. I ignore the .001 weight number because it fluctuates so much it would take me forever to decide which pile to put it in. I'm not sure how much difference there would be side x side using a .02 FX120i vs a .001 Sartorius but for what I am doing, I feel like I am doing good by grouping to .01 grains anyway and I know guys that are shooting very well grouping them by .02 grains.

I am still having a hard time wrapping my head around how a scale that is accurate to .02 grains is magically somehow MORE accurate when switched to grams.

I'm not trying to say anyone is doing it wrong or anything like that, I just don't understand it, so I'm trying to learn. I have seen guys alluding to the fact that grams is somehow a more accurate measurement which I can't wrap my head around.

.02 grains = 0.001295978 grams so is it the finer number breakdown of the sort with grams that you guys are liking or is there something I'm missing here?

The Sartorius can programmed to not display the 3rd digit, I did it on mine, it was way too distracting.

 

[Mulligan]

0.001 gram=0.01543 grains

If you have a good quality force restoration scale that is capable of repeatable 0.001gram accuracy, sorting in gram mode will be much more accurate than 0.01grain mode.

CW

 

[LRPV]

The Sartorius can programmed to not display the 3rd digit, I did it on mine, it was way too distracting.

Yea, I should probably do that. Too much thinking when throwing powder.

 

[dellet]

If you look at Vihtavouri load data, you can toggle between metric and imperial. They change the load data and velocity. Not like some of the others that just change velocity to meters.

If you have a 2 grain min/max spread in 1/10’s, you have a .13 gram spread measured in 1/100’s.

For comparing or sorting, it’s not really which weight system you use, it’s which has the finer resolution, how many digits.

Really no different than counting clicks, MOA vs MIl.