Recommend a powder measure

[Hunter47]

For the large grain rifle powders such as 4895/Varget have any of you experienced a good powder thrower? I have a Hornady because my Dillon was lousy. I have measured hundreds of throws and found that the variances can be as much as .7 to .8 grains. That is way to large of dispersion for my tastes. Please, only responses from those that have actual data to back up their choices.

[Bill Steele]

You are going to no doubt get any number of people who will post their wondeful results with x, y or Z brand of drop. Some who will tell you it is all in the action of the lever, the type of whizzy baffle, the vibrator they taped to the hopper, etc. etc.

The truth is that while some drops are really bad, the best drops will not drop large extruded powders accurately enough to be used for precise loads (+/- .1gr).

If I want super accurate drop to drop, I use a fine ball powder. If I want to use large extruded (4064 is one of my favorites in 308), it is drop and trickle. If you have a good enough scale, you will come to this conclusion yourself, hopefully before you buy that sixth or seventh whizzy powder measure (like I did).

Sorry to be Debbie Downer.

[savagemann]

I use varget for my .223.
The Lee Perfect Powder measure works good for me.
Usually .1 with a max of .2 difference, but the .2 is rare.
There is a technique I've learned over the years using this measure.
Raise the arm and flick the side of the measure with you finger.
Drop the powder and flick again.
I use a pulling motion with my index finger.
Tested it out the other day and weighed 10 drops.
They were all right on the money.
After about 100 loads, my finger tip gets sore though.
My buddy puts a spot of duct tape around his finger and that helps.

[JagerDog]

The large extruded powders ain't gonna drop perfect. Drop a few 10ths light and trickle if you want precision.

[Hunter47]

Thanks everyone. That's what I thought. I just want to ask the forum in case there was some magical device that was cost and time efficient. By the way I do drop light and trickle in the few grains. That is how I can tell how good (bad) my thrower is.

[BigBronco]

Any powder measure will work with long grain powders fine. The trick is while throwing loads ju:;m;p up an

[BigBronco]

Any powder measure will work with long grain powders fine. The trick is while throwing loads jump up and down on one leg while reciting the Gettysburg address in a pirate voice.

[wild_weasel]

I have great success with my RCBS UniFlow using either the small or large cylinders with extruded powder: IMR 4350 and 3031. But, you'll always feel those few grains being cut as I throw the charge. Recently I have been using the RCBS Little Dandy for loading 223/5.56. It turns out that #26 rotor throws exactly 26.5 grains of CFE-223 which makes a great load with 55gr bullets. CFE-223 is a very dense ball powder that flows through eh Little Dandy like Mercury...

[J-cat]

Redding makes a LR-1000 which is the equivalent to their BR-30 competition measure. It is a superb measure, can't be beat.