Walkalong,
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when I weighed various thrown charges they were all within .5
Did you mean .05?
No, I was shooting for 25.5g and some were higher and some were lower. Then, I was interested to see just HOW MUCH higher and lower, so I weighed the high ones and they were about 26.0g and the lower ones were about 25.0g.
I was careful to make sure the RCBS Powder Measure (with optional Micrometer setting plunger) hopper was at a pretty constant level of powder and moved the handle to charge the exact same way every time (same speed, all the way up and all the way down).
When I looked by eye at 50 cases filled with powder, under extremely bright lights, I could see that all 50 charged cases appeared to have the exact amount of powder, however, like I said, when I weighed about two to three out of every ten, that is how much the powder weight differed. So, .5 grains difference either side of 25.5 would actually make each case within 1 grain -- when compared to EACH OTHER.
After seeing that, I then remembered why I initially got in the habit of weighing EVERY charge. I remember "throwing" loads when I first started reloading, and no matter what powder I was using (ball, sperical, flaked, etc.) the thrown loads were off considerably. And that would have been a complete different powder measure back then, as I got out of reloading for a while, then bought all new equipment and started all over again with new RCBS equipment.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong.