What does everyone use for measuring powder

[IALoder]

Uniflow with an ohaus 5-0-5, and a charge master lite for single stage stuff. Lee auto drum works pretty well on the progressive!

 

[Varminterror]

AutoTrickler V2.5. 9-12sec per charge and precision down to the kernel.

 

[Kaldor]

Autotrickler v4. Previously used a Autotrickler v3 but sold it because it wouldn't meter N570. Of the two units? The v3 is better because of ease of use and speed up until you need to run what is almost road gravel thru it.

Had a Chargemaster 1500 before that and it's simply okay. Had to watch for drifting and other antics though. It was better than trickling by hand. I did check loads on it vs my 505.

I still have multiple Hornady rotary drops that have been polished and waxed. They see heavy use on my progressive for rifle and pistol ammo. They produce consistent results, often better than what one would think is possible with ball and short extruded powders.

Sadly, my old school RCBS Ohaus US made 505 sits on the shelf with my Redding hand trickler with a fine layer of dust.

 

[TEXASJD]

Neal Jones

 

[AWS]

A pair of Seaco Tru Speeds on the bench one by each press, three Lyman 55's mounted above the bench and an old Redding Micro adjustable powder measure also above the bench and a pair of RCBS 510 scales mounted at eye level. I like to leave some of the Lyman's set for rounds I load a lot of instead of adjusting them all the time. The Seacos might be big and bulky but they are easy to adjust.

 

[IWAC]

I use a hornady electronic scale, but check and trickle up on an ohaus scale. The problem is the hornady takes a lot of time in slow mode to even get near the charge I need, and normal and fast modes are never even close, and are always unpredictable as to how far off they will be. I don't mind trickling up on the ohaus scale, although I would like to look elsewhere to dispense powder. My dad has a manual powder dispenser from hornady that I'm thinking about trying, because if I have to trickle up anyway at least this will be quick. But what does everyone else do to get consistent loads (within one tenth of a grain), without wasting a lot of time? I'm newer to reloading so any help is appreciated!

I use three...Lee Dippers, An old Hornady-Pacific pistol measure with bushings, which never will get exactly the load...I figure close is good enough, and lately, A Hornady drum measure...the jury is still out on it, though. I don't load to maximum, and my average loads with the bushings measure are within .1 gr, so we'll see.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I am still strictly amateur here after 55 years of practice. Mostly I load what I can't buy or I can't find cheap enough for practice ammo.
I use a full set of red Lee cubic inch and a full set of yellow Lee cubic centimeter dipper measures , with the "slide rules" for finding grain equivalent of common powders.
My son gifted me a simple balance scale when he got a fancy pantsy electronic scale. Now I am getting more picky.

Reloading
7.92x25mm (C96 Mauser with badly eroded barrel that likes .312 or .312 85gr revolver bullets).
.38 Special mostly wadcutters
.357 Magnum using .38 Spl+P specs
.45 AutoRim for a "cut" .455 Mark IV Webley using .454 255gr RN bullets
.30-30 Winchester
.303 British
6.5x52mm Carcano

Smokeless powders
IMR 3031
IMR 4166
IMR 4895
Unique
Black powder and substitutes
Goex, Elephant, Swiss BPs
PyrodexP, PyrodexRS, TripleSe7enFFG

I have learned weighed charges of TripleSe7en powder are a lot more consistent in accuracy than volumetric dipper charges. But I only need 25 rifle and 20 pistol rounds per BP cartridge match so it's not that much more effort to dip and trickle.

 

[mikey98e]

I'm one of those anal people that weighs every charge so I find it easier to use the Lee powder dippers and a powder trickler to charge my loads.
-mike

 

[CoalTrain49]

The RCBS Powder measure that I've had for yrs. Checking charges on an Ohaus 1010 scale.

Same here. RCBS powder measure but a digital scale to check every 10 cases. I have weights to check the scales and I do that before I start. Probably a beam scale and trickle device would be optimal but way too slow for loading 200 rds of pistol ammo and even .223/5.56 ammo for informal target shooting.

I know I might be diverging half a grain here and there but for what I'm doing it matters little.

 

[Barmcd]

My RCBS Competition Powder Measures do a good job on anything but extruded powder. With that, I drop the powder just a little below my desired charge weight and trickle up to meet it. If I'm only doing a few cases, I hand drop to meet my charge weight. I measure on a Creedmoor Sports TRX-925 electronic scale.