How many Powder Measures?

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How many powder measures do you have? Do you have only one or more than one, set up for things such as rifle and pistol or other

Or do you have my one that does everything?
 
Three, all old. I have a Redding dedicated to pistols, another Redding dedicated to spherical rifle powders and a CH I use for rod-type powders. For some reason the CH works far better than the Redding on the long cylindrical shapes.
 
I now have four, my old original uni-flow I bought a long time ago, Lee pro auto disc that came on my Pro1000 from 25 yrs ago, the hornady that came on my LNL-AP, and recently I bought a Hornady Auto Charge for hard to meter powders like stick and large flake.

I don't need that many, just accumulated them over the years, I could sell the uni-flow but why, I may need it for some dedicated use some time. Then I'd have to go buy another one at more than twice what I paid for this one and the stand it goes on.

My father started me reloading when I was 12 so I have inherited, accumulated a lot over the last 42yrs. More than I really need. I junked two presses from being worn out, made in the 50-60s, after I kicked one laying on the floor in my bare feet one day when the lights were out.

I've hung onto everything else because it reminds me of when my father was still alive and we were reloading and hunting together. Good times.
 
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A Redding 10X (Pistol), a Redding BR-30 (Small to medium rifle), a Hornady that came with the LNL (Large rifle), and a retired Hornady bushing style pistol measure. Not to mention some Lee scoops and a couple home made scoops.
 
Over the years, I've used (pretty much in order....) a Lyman Ideal #55, an Ohaus Du-o-Measure, several Lee Auto-Disks, Dillon, and RCBS Uni-Flow. I had to get the Uni-Flow because the hopper on the Du-o-Measure broke and couldn't be fixed. I currently own several Dillons and the Uni-Flow, as well as one of those newfangled electronic RCBS things that talks to a scale. Everything mentioned in this post has been quite serviceable, and everything had/has its quirks.
 
I have 2, a RCBS Uni-flow, and a Lee PPM.

I like the PPM for long extruded powders, it's plastic wiper is very smooth with those stick powders and drops consistently, but I do not drop the whole charge I trickle up with rifle charges.

The RCBS is particular to powder granular shapes, I like it for ball, flake type powders and use it for volume and handgun charges.
 
I guess I have 5. yikes. I realized I bought one for each SDB caliber I have. other than that I have a lyman from the time moses wore sandals, and a lee perfect.
 
2 Hornady, 1 that I keep set up with a large rotor, 1 with a small rotor. Eventually I'd like to add 1 or 2 more, and enough case activated linkages to have one on each measure.
 
2 and I use both when making rounds. It goes slower but ensures strict consistency. I measure every load on a digital scale before it goes in and I measure every 3rd load on a balance beam scale to see if my Lee powder drop is behaving.
 
I have the Hornady that came with the LnL and an old RCBS uniflow. I'm making the parts and pieces to adapt it to the LnL now although I'm not sure why I need 2 set ups.

I have separate inserts for my pistol calibers, a modified insert and rotor for my .223, and a rifle rotor/insert for the LnL. I haven't yet decided what I'm going to do with the case activated uniflow.
 
Do like I do, keep one rotor/measure setup for .223 and another for pistol. Since I have 2 rifle rotors and one pistol rotor, I keep one rotor on my usual .223 load, one that's "in the ballpark" for any large rifle caliber I load (takes minor adjusting anytime I switch "large" calibers), and a pistol rotor that's constantly being adjusted (doesn't bother me as I set it once and load up 500+ rounds before switching). It's not as time effiecient as having a separate measure and case activated setup for every caliber, but it's a good bit quicker than full-on adjusting for EVERY caliber.
 
Twelve
Redding 10X for single stage handgun
Redding 10X modified for use on a progressive
Uniflow for single stage small rifle
Uniflow that came with Pro2000 also small rifle
Midway Indespensible used for large rifle
Harrel Custom 90, good measure
Hornady L-N-L that came with the press, mostly retired
RCBS Little Dandy coming out if retirement
3 Dillon measures for SDBs
PACT auto dispenser. Being replaced by Harrel.

All accumulated over thirty some years of reloading

I like to try different things and I do not like changing them over.
 
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I have 2 RCBS measures that I started with 40 plus years ago (1 for pistol &
1 for rifle). I have 2 Hornady measures that came with my 2 LNL AP presses
(1 set for pistol & 1 for rifle). I also have the RCBS Chargemaster.
 
Five.

RCBS Uniflow (my original powder measure from way back in the 80's)
Lyman 55
Two Lee Auto Disks that came with Pro 1000 and turret kit
Lee Perfect ($10 on a gunshow table) The Lee is always set to throw 16 grains of 2400 because that's the universal cast bullet load for most of my rifles.

I also have a full set of the Lee dippers, but those don't really count.
 
2.

Lee Perfect Powder Measure
& Hornady Lock-n-Load Powder Measure

The Lee is mounted to the bench. The Hornady is on my LnL press. The Hornady feels a lot more solid in construction but honestly the Lee has never given me any trouble.
 
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