First time using a powder tricker

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I just got a powder tricker and wanted to see about loading 20 rounds and use the tricker to make sure very load had the same amount of powder.

Also, just got a new Hornady scale and was using that to measure the charge. It was amazing how different each throw of the powder (Varget & IMR 4895) is out of the thrower.

Measuring each round took forever. Hoping on Saturday I will see how the rounds shoot against rounds that I just used the powder thrower.
 
Stick powders are not know for metering as well as ball powder. It is an inherent issue. Some powder throwers handle it better than others, but I have used Hornady, RCBS, and Dillon. They all throw stick powder differently. I suspect it is the shape of the powder reservoir relative to the size of the powder. I don't load rifle on the Dillon any more, and use the RCBS for H-4350 and it does OK.

I have not played with Varget, but similar powders H-4350 and IMR 4350 are only different in that the stick is cut shorter in the H-4350 and it does meter better than IMR 4350. By the way all three are from the source in Australia.

As you use the trickler, you will get faster by getting a feel for the average weight of the grains of powder and counting them up rapidly, not waiting on the scale to register until you are just short of your target.

Lee has a large following, but my problem is not worth another powder measure as long as I have a trickler.
 
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I use an Omega trickler with a GEMPRO250 scale when I trickle up charges. True, it does take longer but I can get a .02gr resolution on the scale.
http://www.omegapowdertrickler.com/

I only trickle loads for my 600 yard ammo (.223 and .243) for matches though, since it is time consuming.

If you want to trickle with speed, check out the AUTOTRICKLER. Good reviews from the folks on accurateshooter forum.
http://www.autotrickler.com/

For those of you that need precision, speed and volume, there's the Prometheus scale. Only a mere $5100
http://prometheustoolcorp.com/
 
Damn I like the prome the us too corp one! A set of them would look good on the bench.
 
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