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I've had a new unopened Rockchucker Supreme Kit for two years, only opened the box today... Have reloaded "zero" rounds to date, but have been reading voraciously these past years...
Today, I decided to dig out my kit from it's box and go over everything contained inside the box.... All seemed in good order.... The RCBS M500 balance scale was winking at me to calibrate it's zero and to try it out.... I had no standard weights (those purchased from Brownell's or Midway) to use for verification... HOWEVER, about 20 years ago, I found a small backpack on the ground at a beachside parking lot... Inside the pack were some filthy clothes, unopened mail from creditors (I would assume), personal hygiene items, AND a small velvet covered box which contained inside a drug dealer's balance and "weights" (to counter balance the drugs he'd be selling).... I tried for months to find this guy and return his pack... He was of no fixed address and I was never able to locate him.... I kept the drug kit should I ever find myself jobless and needing to upstart a new business...
Of course it took me a while to find the velvet covered box.... But, I did find it..... Inside the velvet box it had many "standard" weights for which to measure/ counter measure drugs.... I chose to measure, with my brand new RCBS M500 scale, the 2.0 gram, 3.0 gram, 4.0 gram and 5.0 gram counter weights.... I was expecting my scale to read very close to calculated weights, 30.86 grains, 46.30 grains, 61.72 grains and 77.16 grains, respectively..... I also thought this would take almost no time at all and soon I could put all my new reloading items on my new bench and do something else today....
I measured all drug dealer counter weights many, many, many times and each measured consistently over and over... HOWEVER, each counter weight measured consistently LOWER than the above calculated weights.... Each counter weight measured between 6% and 9% lower than they should have.... Needless to say, I spent a whole afternoon mucking with this new M500 scale trying to figure out what could be wrong with it... I searched the internet, I read the owners manual cover to cover, 3 times.... I was at wits end and had wasted many hours trying to find an answer..... Was just about to call RCBS and let them know their junk would be coming back to them in short order.... THEN, I went upstairs and grabbed 1 of each 7mm 140 grain Accubond, 7mm 140 grain Sierra Game King and a .338 225 grain Speer BTSP.... I weighed each bullet numerous times and each weighed within 0.2 grains (CONSISTENTLY) of expected published bullet weights.... BINGO .... I wasted the whole bloody afternoon trusting and expecting a drug dealer's "standards" to be accurate, and, so quickly suspected the RCBS M500 to be defective....
Moral of the story, these slimy drug dealers purchase kits that are deliberately and inherently designed to cheat their dope using customers.... They'd cheat their mother's if they were doping zombies too...
I guess I should have known.....
I hope to be reloading for my .338 wm and 7mm-08 Browning A-Bolt's, very soon... This forum has helped me immensely in understanding the importance of safety and some of the intricate procedures required to measure and produce safe and accurate ammunition.... Thanks to all.....
I've had a new unopened Rockchucker Supreme Kit for two years, only opened the box today... Have reloaded "zero" rounds to date, but have been reading voraciously these past years...
Today, I decided to dig out my kit from it's box and go over everything contained inside the box.... All seemed in good order.... The RCBS M500 balance scale was winking at me to calibrate it's zero and to try it out.... I had no standard weights (those purchased from Brownell's or Midway) to use for verification... HOWEVER, about 20 years ago, I found a small backpack on the ground at a beachside parking lot... Inside the pack were some filthy clothes, unopened mail from creditors (I would assume), personal hygiene items, AND a small velvet covered box which contained inside a drug dealer's balance and "weights" (to counter balance the drugs he'd be selling).... I tried for months to find this guy and return his pack... He was of no fixed address and I was never able to locate him.... I kept the drug kit should I ever find myself jobless and needing to upstart a new business...
Of course it took me a while to find the velvet covered box.... But, I did find it..... Inside the velvet box it had many "standard" weights for which to measure/ counter measure drugs.... I chose to measure, with my brand new RCBS M500 scale, the 2.0 gram, 3.0 gram, 4.0 gram and 5.0 gram counter weights.... I was expecting my scale to read very close to calculated weights, 30.86 grains, 46.30 grains, 61.72 grains and 77.16 grains, respectively..... I also thought this would take almost no time at all and soon I could put all my new reloading items on my new bench and do something else today....
I measured all drug dealer counter weights many, many, many times and each measured consistently over and over... HOWEVER, each counter weight measured consistently LOWER than the above calculated weights.... Each counter weight measured between 6% and 9% lower than they should have.... Needless to say, I spent a whole afternoon mucking with this new M500 scale trying to figure out what could be wrong with it... I searched the internet, I read the owners manual cover to cover, 3 times.... I was at wits end and had wasted many hours trying to find an answer..... Was just about to call RCBS and let them know their junk would be coming back to them in short order.... THEN, I went upstairs and grabbed 1 of each 7mm 140 grain Accubond, 7mm 140 grain Sierra Game King and a .338 225 grain Speer BTSP.... I weighed each bullet numerous times and each weighed within 0.2 grains (CONSISTENTLY) of expected published bullet weights.... BINGO .... I wasted the whole bloody afternoon trusting and expecting a drug dealer's "standards" to be accurate, and, so quickly suspected the RCBS M500 to be defective....
Moral of the story, these slimy drug dealers purchase kits that are deliberately and inherently designed to cheat their dope using customers.... They'd cheat their mother's if they were doping zombies too...
I guess I should have known.....
I hope to be reloading for my .338 wm and 7mm-08 Browning A-Bolt's, very soon... This forum has helped me immensely in understanding the importance of safety and some of the intricate procedures required to measure and produce safe and accurate ammunition.... Thanks to all.....
