I just bought a powder trickler and scale so that I could weight my Blackhorn 209 blackpowder to precise measurements with grain weight instead of eyeballing it with a volume measure which not supposed to be as accurate as it changes when the powder settles.
Apparently the powder trickler was made for smokeless powder which has far smaller grains than blackpowder which is actually quite big. I found that the trickler barely put 1 or 2 grains out per turn which would take forever when you are attempting to measure out 100 grains.
So my 2 issues with the powder tricklers are:
1.) Made specifically for blackpowder so has larger opening for the larger blackpowder grains.
2.) Made to be anti-static so that an electric spark doesn't set off the blackpowder.
From what I've seen almost all of the powder tricklers are made for smokeless powder and have small openings. I researched online and didn't find anything about blackpowder specific tricklers which is strange.
**** Note, this is for deer hunting, do not need precise accuracy but accuracy out to about 200 yards.
This is the blackpowder trickler I bought that won't work.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AVUJ26C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Apparently the powder trickler was made for smokeless powder which has far smaller grains than blackpowder which is actually quite big. I found that the trickler barely put 1 or 2 grains out per turn which would take forever when you are attempting to measure out 100 grains.
So my 2 issues with the powder tricklers are:
1.) Made specifically for blackpowder so has larger opening for the larger blackpowder grains.
2.) Made to be anti-static so that an electric spark doesn't set off the blackpowder.
From what I've seen almost all of the powder tricklers are made for smokeless powder and have small openings. I researched online and didn't find anything about blackpowder specific tricklers which is strange.
**** Note, this is for deer hunting, do not need precise accuracy but accuracy out to about 200 yards.
This is the blackpowder trickler I bought that won't work.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AVUJ26C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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