Looking to upgrade my scales a bit. Anyone ever heard of these?

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Can't seem to find any reviews either.

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I don't know anything about that scale but I was researching reloading scale's and powder dispensers to upgrade my reloading setup and I ended up finding alot of different scale's that look like the type I'm looking for but ended up being built for a total different purposes than reloading ammo and were going to be less productive for what I was needing. I went with a RCBS Chargemaster powder measure scale and dispenser setup that I found for $200 that was exactly what I needed and for alot cheaper than just buying the scale alone. It took me a few weeks to find the right deal but they are out there. I myself don't see the point of taking a chance on something that I don't know will work for what I need when I can find a great setup for cheaper that has a good reputation for doing what I need from it. Good luck with your reloading and hope you find a great deal on what you are looking for.
 
I have a Hornady and a Frankford Arsenal scale and they seem to want to drift every so often. I usually have to recalibrate them after 30-40 rounds. I noticed that when I lifted the pan and the scale would read .2 to .2 grain difference each time.

RCBS is a good brand and I have heard good things about them too. I'm pretty well done with Hornady products.
 
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Downeast said:
I have a Hornady and a Forsters scale and they seem to want to drift every so often. I usually have to recalibrate them after 30-40 rounds. I noticed that when I lifted the pan and the scale would read .2 to .2 grain difference each time.

RCBS is a good brand and I have heard good things about them too. I'm pretty well done with Hornady products.
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I understand that frustration and it's the reason I went to buying the RCBS Chargemaster because I always have to second guess my other digital scale and can't take a chance on over charging a round with fast powder's and causing over pressure or damage or injury because of that. So I definitely wanted a very accurate scale and the RCBS Chargemaster is very accurate and also has a powder dispenser that will dispense the powder on the scale exactly what you tell it to and the scale has a digital readout with a alarm to let you know if the charger is to heavy or light so you know what you are loading. It's also very easy to calibrate and use with very easy manual to understand.
 
I use Frankford Arsenal Intelle-dropper. Just like the aforementioned RCBS unit. I tend to calibrate it with the weight set, then run it through the powder dispensing calibration. It's very accurate from there. I'll use a beam scale as a double check every 5-10 rounds if I'm loading for rifle.
 
Downeast said:

This one looks interesting. ;)
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That's similar to the old RCBS/Ohaus Model 304. You might still be able to find on on eBay or something.

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I went back and checked and this one does GN too, which supposedly stands for grains.

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Downeast said:
I went back and checked and this one does GN too, which supposedly stands for grains.

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A lot of the electronic scales have selectable options for the weight unit. As far as the beam scales, all of the ones I have seen don't have the option.
 
Dont know anything about the one you are looking at but two things: A. Buy once cry once. A quality digital scale is going to run at least $600 if not more. B. Depends on what you want to do with it. Competition rifle shooting demands + or - 0.02 grains. That is one kernal of Varget. I had the RCBS Chargemaster whatever # original and it worked for about 5 yrs before it became unreliable. I have its baby brother now and its fine for pistol and hunting rifle loading but for competition I use a A&D FX-120i with an auto trickler. Digital scales require quiet quality power and stable room temp with no drafts. Good luck.
 
jimmyjames8 said:
Dont know anything about the one you are looking at but two things: A. Buy once cry once. A quality digital scale is going to run at least $600 if not more. B. Depends on what you want to do with it. Competition rifle shooting demands + or - 0.02 grains. That is one kernal of Varget. I had the RCBS Chargemaster whatever # original and it worked for about 5 yrs before it became unreliable. I have its baby brother now and its fine for pistol and hunting rifle loading but for competition I use a A&D FX-120i with an auto trickler. Digital scales require quiet quality power and stable room temp with no drafts. Good luck.
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I'm just getting tired of the "low price" scales (under $150) that just don't seem to last and have questionable reliability. I have an old RCBS beam balance scale that does well but it is slow. I use it to check charges every so often. I have three digital scales, Hornady, Frankford Arsenal, and a old PACT (it finally died last week) and when you compare them they weigh charges the same about 2/3 of the time. One may weigh a charge at 40.5, one 40.6, the other 40.4 for example (since they are +/- 0.1 grain scales I assume it is a rounding off error?). I'm not sure if it makes a significant difference but It's quite frustrating and when you shoot 600 yard groups you try to minimize as many variables as you can. The FX-120i is a very nice piece of equipment and with the trickler I would assume it breaks $1K quite easily. But I generally only compete against myself and I'm not sure whether I'm worth it. LOL!
 
Although I reloaded for many years (rifle, pistol, and shotgun), I don't reload any longer and gave away all my stuff to my kids. A couple of years ago, I thought it would be nice to have a small scale to weigh things in the grain range, and thought that an electronic one would be a lot slicker than one of the old beam balances. After doing a bunch of research on that, I turned and ran away from the electronic option because virtually all of them have a problem in weighing incremental additions to the original amount -- like when you're trickling extra power to get to a precise amount. They'll weigh a single amount accurately, but they don't respond accurately to either adding or removing some weight. So I bailed on them.

I have no idea if the electronic scales being mentioned here address this problem. But I'd be very careful in choosing and using an electronic scale.
 
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It all boils down to your needs. What type of shooting your doing. $400- and up scales I don't know
if you want precision, then you weigh "everything", repeat everything, even same lots of Vargot have
different results. There was articles on that, your same lot number may not be the same as mine even
though the lots are same. (grin) I mainly use my Tuned M5 scale, it just works. Digital scales, clean
power, drafts, fluorescence lights, etc. Now if I had all the money tied up in some of those rigs, then
a high end digital would work. "Downeast" said it best, "I compete against myself" no matter what my
shooting is, "I" can do this, "I" have to do better.... or "you dumb*ass why? saying all this to myself.

The way I relate to this is when I was bowling in a league, you had those "die-hard bowlers" gloves,
grips, shoes, all the tools, then the simple bowler like myself, 16lb Brunswick ball, 16lb "Hammer" finger
tip, goes to bowl for the "fun" of it. and our team "smoked" the die-hard team, "priceless" Seen simple
rifles, "smoke" the several thousand dollar rigs, operator maybe, luck maybe...

-Snoopz
 
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Downeast said:
I'm just getting tired of the "low price" scales (under $150) that just don't seem to last and have questionable reliability. I have an old RCBS beam balance scale that does well but it is slow. I use it to check charges every so often. I have three digital scales, Hornady, Frankford Arsenal, and a old PACT (it finally died last week) and when you compare them they weigh charges the same about 2/3 of the time. One may weigh a charge at 40.5, one 40.6, the other 40.4 for example (since they are +/- 0.1 grain scales I assume it is a rounding off error?). I'm not sure if it makes a significant difference but It's quite frustrating and when you shoot 600 yard groups you try to minimize as many variables as you can. The FX-120i is a very nice piece of equipment and with the trickler I would assume it breaks $1K quite easily. But I generally only compete against myself and I'm not sure whether I'm worth it. LOL!
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Not sure what the combo is going for these days. I just shot an IBS 600yd match in Kinston on Saturday. Competition has gotten into my blood. Another 600yd match in Rutherfordton a week from Saturday. This is pretty much the last month of long range competition for the year. All starts again next spring. Come on out and play.
 
Nice to see that CFF was represented at Rattlesnake Ridge. :cool:
 
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