If you had $700, what would you get for reloading?

Old Rooster said:

Enough time has gone by and I have changed my mind.No Labradar since I got the Garmin.
Like BillLarson I would get a CO-AX,A&D 120i+trickle.My present scale, Pact wonders after 3 loads.Calibrating takes too long.

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Take a look at the TRX-925 It's not as pricey as the 120I+trickler. Not as convenient either but I recently loaded 500 6.8 SPC round with it and it did great. I drop with an RCBS Chargemaster and confirm with the TRX. Most times the Chargemaster needs it...

Been looking at that scale.Better priced and never heard a complaint with them.
I too have a RCBS Chargemaster and so far I have not had to dump charges back into the hopper.I double check with an old Rcbs 10-10 beam scale.

Old Rooster said:

Been looking at that scale.Better priced and never heard a complaint with them.
I too have a RCBS Chargemaster and so far I have not had to dump charges back into the hopper.I double check with an old Rcbs 10-10 beam scale.

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Someone (maybe here) said that type of scale drifts on the 0 weight end. Meaning take the pan off after calibrating, write the reading down. Put the pan on. Let it zero. Repeat. The no pan number varies for some apparently. I forget what the ES and SD for the pan off number was but it was in the 100ths of a grain. Ie negligible. Mines getting close to two years old and it's been great. My RCBS misses in the 100ths of a grain a lot Like 44.01 vs 44. That's not terrible. I have had it be off by 1/2 a grain. That's too much for some of my loads. That much in a .20PPC, for instance, would be 5x what I tolerate. For the 7mm Rem Mag or 338 Edge it's not "that bad" but I hold those to the tenth as well.

Bullets, primers, powder. If I can't have those, case trimming by hand kind of sucks, an automatic one of those would be nice.

Muddyboots said:

$700? easy, 1lb of RL26.

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This was tongue in cheek but now that Vista has announced Alliant powder accessibility going forward, maybe $700 not enough.

The new garmin

A jug of powder and 100 pieces of brass.

I would by a much better scale and Powder Measuring device. !!!!!!!

Screwed that one up

Coyote Shadow Tracker said:

Probably a gift card for Jill to go to the Spa for a day, then a few hundred for her hair products, maybe some Skecher Shoes and the rest of the $700 on a nice dinner out for the both of us.

Well we have just about everything but -Then the next month after getting Jill some items maybe another Super Trickler and FZ120i. AMP Press and for bullets maybe another 5K 300gr Berger OTM.

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Took mine out for her birthday not enough out of 700$ to buy a can of snuff

C-130 Dude said:

Last chunk I had went to a new Giraud trimmer. I would rather quit reloading than give it up. No question. Now, going forward I would consider a Labradar or a CPS. Probably get a CPS. I think. Maybe. Oh crap, decisions......

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Got Giraud then started Ai everything and now it just looks cool sitting on my bench

Old Rooster said:

Been looking at that scale.Better priced and never heard a complaint with them.
I too have a RCBS Chargemaster and so far I have not had to dump charges back into the hopper.I double check with an old Rcbs 10-10 beam scale.

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I do pretty much the same thing the only way to simplify is with a Promethus scale and 700$ won't make a down payment

It would require some negotiation but a guy could get started or finish out his setup with your $700 and this seller in Missouri.
Cheers

An automatic powder measurer and trickler would be nice, but $700 would probably go into primers and powder. I can cast my own bullets, and wheel weights are everywhere.