Halo
Member
Until recently all the powders I have used are fine grained spherical powders that meter so smoothly I can get my RCBS Uniflow to drop the exact charge consistently.
Well I just bought a pound of Unique because I am always seeing it in such a variety of loads, and I have made up a few test batches. It's rather difficult to meter, and every so often the rotor on the powder measure feels like it is trying to plow through sawdust. Those drops are always off by several tenths of a grain.
For my test loads I have used a powder trickler to bring each and every charge up to the exact weight. But once I settle on a load, it will be rather impractical to do this for several hundred rounds of pistol ammo. I am used to just weighing every 10th charge to make sure I'm not getting any drift.
How do you guys handle powders that are difficult to meter out consistently? Am I going to be pretty much stuck with having to individually weigh every single charge?
Well I just bought a pound of Unique because I am always seeing it in such a variety of loads, and I have made up a few test batches. It's rather difficult to meter, and every so often the rotor on the powder measure feels like it is trying to plow through sawdust. Those drops are always off by several tenths of a grain.
For my test loads I have used a powder trickler to bring each and every charge up to the exact weight. But once I settle on a load, it will be rather impractical to do this for several hundred rounds of pistol ammo. I am used to just weighing every 10th charge to make sure I'm not getting any drift.
How do you guys handle powders that are difficult to meter out consistently? Am I going to be pretty much stuck with having to individually weigh every single charge?