Ive been thinking about trying to inprove my reloading uniformity . My old dillion scale seem to jump around alot if i put 50 grains on it it will start at 50 then 50.1 and work its way up a tenth of a grain about every minute if i give it long enough it will go up 1.5 or almost 2grains. I use my hornady electric powder dispensor and set it a grain short then trickle up to the proper weight. My old rcbs 750 wont stay calibrated but it had a long go of it. .thinking mabeu gem pro 250?
Gem pro 250 scale
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It is an excellent scale, especially with the reduced price of $135. Bought one last month & it is a quality scale.The exception to that would be the plastic tweezers and pan that is included. They give new meaning to the term "Made in China".
For weight sorting bullets I found it to be super fast, way faster than using a beam scale, but (there's always that) it was taking me twice as long (24 to 30 minutes versus 12 to 15) to weigh 20 powder charges compared to my RCBS beam scale. I tried everything that was suggested to me & I could not get the speed up, so I returned it for a no questions refund. Great company to deal with.
Others report great success with them, so they can't be all bad.
For weight sorting bullets I found it to be super fast, way faster than using a beam scale, but (there's always that) it was taking me twice as long (24 to 30 minutes versus 12 to 15) to weigh 20 powder charges compared to my RCBS beam scale. I tried everything that was suggested to me & I could not get the speed up, so I returned it for a no questions refund. Great company to deal with.
Others report great success with them, so they can't be all bad.
I bought one two weeks or so ago and so far I love it. I received it, read the instructions, plugged it up, waited 3 hours and calibrated it. Since then it has been dead nuts while sitting there. I have used it to weight bullets, brass and to verify powder charges from the RCBS 1500. I have noticed slight variances when weighing the same bullet or brass several times in a row of maybe .02 or less, but this doesn't bother me in the least. I am really using it to keep my other measures honest...and it's doing a fine job of it.
Mark
Mark
I found that amazon has then for 140$. I think i might pull the trigger on this scale.
here is my two cents,
bought one last week thru amazon.nice "little" scale, the plastic doesn't bother me .the scale is very accurate if you leave it on for more then 5hours, i keep mine on 24/7 so it stays up to temp which is what makes them fluctuate. mine has been sitting with the plastic pan at 0.00 for three days and yes if it drifts you zero before weighing each load which is just a push of the "tare"button.
in my situation i dump powder with rcbs1500 and transfer to plastic pan verify weight which is consistently off by 0.12 grains for a 45.00 grain load.
this scale is very consistant in weighing as long as you know why it drifts and how to correct it ( zero before each weigh)
since i have a 20.0 and 50.0 gram calibration weight i did a test to see if the scale was linear as it got warm. my test showed that it is very linear the span or difference for the 20.0 and 50.0 gram was only .02 grams for every two hours and best of all after 6 hours of testing the span got down to 0.01gram every two hours.
hope this helps when deciding which scale to buy.
MT
bought one last week thru amazon.nice "little" scale, the plastic doesn't bother me .the scale is very accurate if you leave it on for more then 5hours, i keep mine on 24/7 so it stays up to temp which is what makes them fluctuate. mine has been sitting with the plastic pan at 0.00 for three days and yes if it drifts you zero before weighing each load which is just a push of the "tare"button.
in my situation i dump powder with rcbs1500 and transfer to plastic pan verify weight which is consistently off by 0.12 grains for a 45.00 grain load.
this scale is very consistant in weighing as long as you know why it drifts and how to correct it ( zero before each weigh)
since i have a 20.0 and 50.0 gram calibration weight i did a test to see if the scale was linear as it got warm. my test showed that it is very linear the span or difference for the 20.0 and 50.0 gram was only .02 grams for every two hours and best of all after 6 hours of testing the span got down to 0.01gram every two hours.
hope this helps when deciding which scale to buy.
MT
I have had one for over a year.. Excellent scale. I found that my RCBS Chargemaster scale is all but useless! It is SUPPOSED to be + / - .10th grain... The GemPro is 2/100ths of a grain accurate. I placed it against my Chargemaster and was so shocked, I quit using the Chargemaster... AND my E.S. / S.D is WAY down. I will use nothing else for competition!
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