Manual powder measures

I use a Harrel’s br measure, after I throw the initial weight and just to be clear I always trickle up to the exact charge on my beam scale.

I like my Lyman brass smith very much all steel parts. My Lee auto drum is nice for on my Lee turret. But i have had it ''clog'' on me. So now i look in every case after i drop powder. And i got a powder check for it when i do 223 and 762x39 on it. My other rifle loads i use the Lyman. And check my cases when they are on the loading block. I use an RCBS trickle when i want more precise loads.

Harrells +1

Before I went progressive, I used an RCBS Uniflow. I don’t know how it stacks up against any other measure, but it worked for me. When I thought I needed really precise charges, it was under-throw and then trickle to zero on the balance beam.

Neil Jones for me
http://www.neiljones.com/html/powder_measure.html

I have the Redding 10x and BR-30 for handgun and rifle up to 308 - I do like them. I am sure others work just as well. Trickling would be fine - depending on how many you will be loading. IMO.

I now have a Lee Perfect Powder Measure, an old Pacific (now Hornaday), and a Ideal 55 (now Lyman). All three work well for most propellants. For the rest I make custom scoops out of old brass cases cut to size and copper house wire.

All the big name powder measures do a fine job. It all depends on how much money you want to spend. It also depends on what scale you have. If you are gonna trickle then I do not see a big difference. How many decimal points do you want to weigh your powder??
They all work pretty much the same way.

I have or have had several and they were all about equally accurate. Depending on the operators skill! You could do worse than buying another Redding, since you are familiar with it and trust it. My Harrells is much smoother than my others but its really not much more accurate, just more repeatable.

frogfurr said:

The biggest difference in my Harrell's and the Redding is, as you say, the smoothness of the Harrell's. Due to it's smoothness I get more consistent throws.

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Harrel’s resale value is very close to retail and the craftsmanship is really good and best thing is made in USA

Cheesemaker said:

I have the Redding 10x and BR-30 for handgun and rifle up to 308 - I do like them. I am sure others work just as well. Trickling would be fine - depending on how many you will be loading. IMO.

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I also have the 10x and BR-30. Both are very nice.

Harrel's for me too. one for pistol, one for rifle.

If your trickling up how good your measure is really doesn't matter. If your throw and go it makes a big difference.

RCBS Uniflow with micrometer setup. Perfect throws and repeatability for charge weights every time.

I have been using an RCBS Uniflow since just after I first tried to meter H110 through a Lee PPM. . .

I know you can spend more, but I'm not sure that you can get more, than a Uniflow + Micrometer stem provides.

This is going to show my age, but I'm using a Belding & Mull powder measure (I actually own two of them). They are not made anymore, but use a micrometer drop tube. They are similar to the Montana Vintage Arms measure currently marketed for black powder shooters: https://montanavintagearms.com/product/black-powder-measure/. In fact, I bought an MVA drop tube to use in my Belding & Mull measure since it would hold a larger capacity of powder than the drop tube that came with my Belding & Mull measure, plus has finer micrometer adjustment capability.

I have an old pacific with large and small micrometers. It’s worked well for over 40 years.

Hornady, polished and waxed.
I've tested it with my FX120i scale with hundreds of drops averaged out. With ball it's nearly dead on every throw, looking at +/- .02 at very most. Short cut extruded powder are about +/- .05. Nothing throws long stick extruded powders that well, except for ironically the Lee, which happens to be the cheapest option.

I've got a couple Harrell's premium culvers.

Very consistent with ball and flake, pretty good with extruded. I just throw a .1 or .2 short and use an electric trickler to finish. I really, really, like the adjustments and repeatability.

I've never used anything but a Redding 3BR, and it constantly pleases me how consistent it is.

RCBS Uniflow with Micrometer stem ....mine is large chamber ....I can throw consistent 3.3 grain charges of Titegroup ...

Did a test and used Bullseye ... got down to consistent 1.5 grain charges ....

I am happy to bought it in 1969/70 as part of a Rockchucker package deal ... so 52 years ... it quite smooth...

I own a ch501, ch502, rcbs, Belding mull, and lee

I will only recommend a Ch502 or CH501 if you can find them.

They drop any type of powder like a dream

They can be set up as a up stroke or a down stroke throw system.