BaltimoreBoy
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I am a relative newcomer to reloading.
I secured a supply of powders etc before the big crunch hit in 2012.
I have handled H110 successfully with a Lee funnel.
Last night I set out to charge 38spl cases with Ram-Silhouette (formerly known as Winchester Action Pistol). This is the first time I had handled the powder.
No matter how careful I tried to be, I always had powder outside of the cases in the loading tray.
At the end of charging 50 cases I scooped up the excess powder and it seemed to amount to about a charge for a single case. In other words I am probably about 2% lower than the charges I intended to load.
From a safety standpoint this is no big deal.
But I can't figure out what is going on. There was no such problem with H110 which is a very fine powder as well.
The funnel has a little inverted section at the bottom so it meets the case. Little if any should be spilling.
Is this some sort of static effect?
Is this the reason I have seen some comments saying to condition a funnel with fabric softener sheets?
Any thoughts?
I secured a supply of powders etc before the big crunch hit in 2012.
I have handled H110 successfully with a Lee funnel.
Last night I set out to charge 38spl cases with Ram-Silhouette (formerly known as Winchester Action Pistol). This is the first time I had handled the powder.
No matter how careful I tried to be, I always had powder outside of the cases in the loading tray.
At the end of charging 50 cases I scooped up the excess powder and it seemed to amount to about a charge for a single case. In other words I am probably about 2% lower than the charges I intended to load.
From a safety standpoint this is no big deal.
But I can't figure out what is going on. There was no such problem with H110 which is a very fine powder as well.
The funnel has a little inverted section at the bottom so it meets the case. Little if any should be spilling.
Is this some sort of static effect?
Is this the reason I have seen some comments saying to condition a funnel with fabric softener sheets?
Any thoughts?