Weighing finished rounds?

[30Cal]

I know one highpower shooter (one of the best actually), who cranks them out on a Dillon, then weighs the finished product and sorts them.

He shoots from heaviest to lightest; the heavy ones having the highest pressures. This offsets, to whatever degree, the affect of the temperature rise through the day.


I don't worry about case rims. They feed just the same (at least in my gear).

[cassius]

Thats exactly what I do and what every one should do every single time. The safer you are the less likely you'll have a KB.

Sorry but that's ridiculous. Folks that compulsive or nervous just shouldn't be loading with a progressive press, in that case.
The whole point of the powder check is to mechanically obviate the need to visually verify. If a person is STILL doing this, then they are just wasing money and time with the powder check and the progressive.
Just get out the load tray and scoops and save yourself $500 in reloading equipment. And quit spreading your fear to folks who should otherwise have a far lower reasonable concern about progressive reloading.

[cassius]

The OP and any other relaoder concerned about double-charging pistol cartridges would do well to find a higher bulk powder which will cause a case overflow in case of a doubled charge. Something that will make it unnecessary to use a progressive press at a single-stage press pace.

The same isn't necessary for bottle-necked rifle cartridges as those cases' standard laodings almost fill the casing with a normal charge. Practally any overcharge will result in a noticeable powder spill, halting the loading.

Lastly, if you want to ferret out powder charges via scale AFTER loading, you'd do well to pre-weigh and sort by weight both your cases and your projectiles.
Primers, their weight differences are inconsequential and meaningless.

[God Bless The Mauser]

When I was loading some .45ACP with my new Lee turret press with the powder through expander die the disk wasn't resetting on the powder dispensor without a push. I missed it once and got a round with no powder. I fired it and all I heard was a pop and I knew it was a squib. I just pushed the bullet out of the barrel with a cleaning rod. Since Lee scale doesn't have enough measurement to weigh anything over 100gr I just went through the 100 or so other rounds I loaded and shook each one so I could hear if there was powder in them or not.

[bruceflinch]

Weighing individual rounds is only viable if you are using all the same MFG. case. Different brands wear differently.

I case guage all my rounds, put them in a 50 round box so I can check the primer seating & mark them w/ a Sharpie for ID after I shot them.

[jwest]

I've done it before - to double check .223 reloads - found it to be reliable.

[swerv512]

i think i'll start weighing mine too as the last step in the reloading process. i dont load that many anyways... althought the likelihood of double-charging a 308 load is pretty impossible....

[chickenfried]

Weighed a few samples of four different brands of .45 brass. All were within .6 of a grain in weight. I guess I'll add this to my routine...