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throwen vs. weighed powder

I've been weighing every powder charge for my 1000 yard loads, does anyone out their use a measure and just throw them?

if so what are the opions in regards ona Harrell premium "culver"
 
SilverEagle said:
I've been weighing every powder charge for my 1000 yard loads, does anyone out their use a measure and just throw them?

if so what are the opinions in regards on a Harrell premium "culver"

I measure all important loads.

The Harrells is a nice measure - nice workmanship - but it is no more accurate than the Redding at 1/2 to 1/3 the price.


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Silver Eagle,

I weigh all mine, but I'm coming around to the mindset that if I have to sit there hunched over a high-accuracy,for reloading) scale like an MX-123 that registers a mouse fart from across the room... that maybe my load either isn't tuned or is just on too narrow of a node to be worth the effort. I still don't think thrown charges are the way to go, but it sure would be nice.

I do know of one person who uses thrown charges at distance - Chris Long aka 'techshooter'. Look him up in the member list here and talk to him about it. I've seen Chris shoot... and all I gotta say is I wish I could shoot like him ;)

Enough to make me question whether maybe I could 'get away' with throwing my powder charges? Sure. Enough to make me swallow a +/- 0.3 variation in my load? No.

Some interesting reading for you,or anyone else who thinks their measure 'throws dead nuts all day long') would be to call up Precision Shooting magazine and ask for a reprint of an article by Frank Murphy titled 'Adventures with Powder Measures: Accurate to a Tenth' from the October 1998 issue. This guy spent basically all winter testing various powder measures - from Lee PPM to some of the best custom measures money could by, various techniques - knock, double tap, no-knock, etc. and reported his result. 14 pages worth,minus ad space, of course).

HTH,

Monte
 
It depends. Varget is a bitch to throw consistantly so I weigh every load. At long range 500-1000 yards it's all about your extreme spread. The more E.S. the more vertical the group. The only way I've found to keep it in the single digits is weigh every charge + or - one mouse fart on my MXX 123.

Danny
 
Well...

Lemme qualify that.

I throw powder that is real fine grained. I directly throw H-322 and BenchMark, and in the old days when I shot ball powder, I threw that too.

Powders like Varget, H-4350, H-4831, etc... those, I throw them "light" into the scale, and then trickle them up to what I want.


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