Aughhh! Need advice

[mugsie]

I'm trying to drop 46g of Varget using a Dillon 550B powder measure - good luck! Like someone already said - the little rat turds just don't want to meter consistantly. I've polished, cleaned, offered sacrifices to the powder drop Gods, nothing works. I can drop ball powders amazingly consistantly from load to load. Extruded? Forgettaboutit! Nothing helps. I even wrapped the powder measure in a bonce dryer sheet - nope, didn't work either.

Any suggestions? Anyone have an accurate Ball powder for .308 using 165 or 168 SPBT or HPBT bullets? These will be used for stalking and killing paper at anywhere between 100 - 600 yards. Accuracy counts! Thanks....

 

[loadedround]

You may want to try RL-15. It meters very well in my measures and I've had good luck with it and 168 gr bullets in my NM M1A. I have also used W-W 748 with 147-150 gr bullets with success and it is both a ball powder and useful in the 168 gr range.

 

[kestak]

Greetings,

I gave up to try to load that kind of powder with my Dillon 550B. Frankly, I am very satisfied with the Ramshot TAC and Hunter. They are cheap, measure well, very available and shoot well in my guns.

Thank you

 

[dardascastbullets]

You have not stated what the underlying problem is. I have used the Dillon for Varget and found it to be extremely precise. I loaded tens of thousands of highpower rounds with confidence. Maybe you could repost and describe what exactly is happening?

 

[ranger335v]

" I can drop ball powders amazingly consistantly from load to load. Extruded? Forgettaboutit! Nothing helps."

That's the facts of life with powders and measures, all of them. Fine stuff measures more consistanly than coarse stuff, no surprise nor any solution other than to weigh it OR learn to accept a few tenths variation. Most of us start weighing but eventually settle for the variation and find the precision weighing accomplished nothing in most applications.

Tubular powders often give better performance than ball powders, that's why they are more popular as a type. And Varget is perhaps the easiest to meter of all tubular powders. Clean, polish, lube all you wish, I believe you are asking too much of your measure.

 

[Ol` Joe]

http://www.quick-measure.com/

 

[interlock]

I set my hopper up about .5 gr light then trickle the remainder in until the scales balance. But i don't do massive volumes.