Gem pro 250

[bighig6202]

You know how hard it is to trickle on to your elec. scale , I have come up with a better way to trickle powder.I use a 1" x 4" piece of paper and fold it in half the long way into a V shape then trickle on to the paper. as you know one piece of varget is app. .02 gr I set my auto powder measure to just short of 44 gr. then i throw it on the scale . if it weighs 43.86 i just count rods of powder and put (7) they are easy to count and see in the paper. toss them in and it seems to always come out right. give it a try Hope it works as good for you guys Ed

 

[BoydAllen]

Good tip. One suggestion for an edit...I think that you may have accidentally put one too many zeros after the decimal point.

 

[snakepit]

I do something similar to what you do but I use a 9oz paper Dixie cup. I squeeze the cup into a V shape at the top and use it to meter my Varget right into the powder pan on the scale. The cup is stiff and you can learn to tap it and get it to work a grain at a time if you are careful. It is also easy to get one grain at a time with your tweezers out of the cup especially if you tilt it. I also use a GemPro 250. I also have found that one piece of Varget weighs .02 grains. I just went and doubled checked and weighed a load of Varget on my GemPro 250 and then each time I added a piece of Varget with the tweezers the weight increased by .02 gr.

 

[jeepcj6]

When I weight N 150 with gem pro 250 I adjust
my powder mesure 0,5 grain low and use a small teespon to fill up most of the time I know how many pieses of powder is needed this is for me the qickest way ;D

 

[gsg5pk]

My GemPro 250 also show a stick of Varget at 0.02 gr.

 

[ridgeway]

http://www.omegapowdertrickler.com/

 

[Killshot]

A huuuuge thumbs-up to the Omega Dandy powered trickler.

And yeah, the little GemPro 250 is a great value and a great scale.

 

[savageshooter86]

+3 on the Omega speed trickler. It is awesome to use with GP 250. I feel very confident in it and that my loads are consistent to 0.02 grains. Like other mentioned a single kernel of Varget weighs that so if it is off it isn't off by more than 1 kernel or 2. Which I believe isn't going to make any bit of difference when shooting ???

 

[amlevin]

Counting granules of Varget sure can give one an accurate powder charge, weight wise, but what does it actually do "on target" down range.

How much variation in powder weight does it ACTUALLY take before one notes accuracy degradation at most competition distances????

 

[williamwaco]

I have a digital trickler.

It is very easy to use, very controllable, and very accurate.

It consists of two digits: My thumb and index finger.


.

 

[bighig6202]

The whole idea of this post was a better way to trickle on to this type of scale. They do not like to respond to small amounts of powder trickled on one at a time. something to do with how they work. but if you dump on a known amount it reads more accurately. if you use a gempro you know the point i'm trying to make. Thanks Ed.

 

[300 RUM]

I use the folded paper method, like one said a kernel of Varget or H4895 is 0.02gr. That said the folded paper I use can hold aprox a 3" line of a single kernel long, if I want 45gr and get a reading of lets say 44.86 I will count out 8 kernels and boom 45grs. You have to pay attention to kernels size some as you all may know are broken in half .

As with all scales you need to learn you r scale, but the folded paper trick is supper trick for fast loading at a 0.02 accuracy.

Aslo I keep one pan on the scale all the time, this way if it is off zero you can tell, I drop into another pan and then dump into pan on the scale, measure then dump into case and replace pan on scale to read zero, if it doesn't read zero tear it.

 

[amlevin]

The whole idea of this post was a better way to trickle on to this type of scale. They do not like to respond to small amounts of powder trickled on one at a time. something to do with how they work. but if you dump on a known amount it reads more accurately. if you use a gempro you know the point i'm trying to make. Thanks Ed.

You don't have to have a Gempro to notice that they don't respond to small amounts being added.

With my Dillon D-Terminator and RCBS digital scales I have taken to just "blowing" on the scale pan after adding a few granules and then wait until the reading settles back down. Just a "Puff" seems to do the trick. I know I added something so if the readout doesn't change it gets the "air treatment".

Anyway, it seems to work fine for me.

 

[markr]

Any of the strain guage type digital scales are "tough to trickle on" with accuracy! However the Gem 250 is an accurate and dependable scale once you learn how to use it while trickling. just trickle in the kernal or two that you think you need then lift the pan and set it back down.
I......personally....... don't see much use in weighing charges to the third digit (.001) but you're mileage may vary.

 

[savageshooter86]

I use the tweezers they sent with the scale and after I trickle the kernels close to what I think I just lightly touch the weighing platform and it reads it again. Pretty fast and don't have to wait for it to show up