N570 is giving me fits in a measure.

LRNut said:

When I load for my LR rifles, I throw a charge in my measure and then trickle using an A&D. Works great...except with N570. Those corn-cob sized kernals are constantly hanging up in my measure. Anyone else suffer from this? Any solutions? Anyone know of an empty case that holds 90 grains of N570? That is my next idea.

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I load 110 grns of N570 285 Hammer bullet.
I also adjust light a few tenths or better out of powder measure, then finish with trickler. I can just tap on tube out of trickler to get it perfect.
Also use fine pointed long tweezers to pick a grain out if I mess up.
Perfect every time.

6.5x300 WBY said:

I was using N570 to test out in my 6.5x300 but I ran it in my Super Trickler and it didn't seem to have any issues.
But it shocked me how large the kernel were.

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Try RL 25 !

I too use a chargemaster to throw .1 or .2 grain under. Then trickle

My "trickler" is a 12 g shotgun shell with 100 gr or so powder in it. Used this since I was a poor kid getting started with reloading. Once you get the hang of your powders, you tip the 12g hull and tap tap tap and basically individual grains tend to jump out.

This is for load development where I really want numbers to be perfect. So I am setting final loads with my old beam scale. Remember to zero the beam scale (your bench may not be perfectly level, mine isn't.) Because a month later, you set the beam scale a little different and you are .1 grain off.

Now, once you have found a decent node, then .1 or .2 should not matter. At that point, its often just thowing changes with the chargemaster and dumping them in the casings.

My chargemaster does n570 OK, less perfect than ball or SC stuff of course. I have never tried to throw n570 with a mechanical powder meter. Doubt it would go well. My 40 y/o RCBS powder dispenser hasn't been used in a decade or so since I got the chargemaster.

I shimmed the back of the autotrickler up so the powder wasn't having to climb as steep of an incline. Took some trial and error to find a sweet spot. Wish the incline angle was adjustable with a threaded foot or something

N-570 works very well in my Hornady auto charge pro. I check every 5th one a balance beam scale.
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lol oh man, I gave up on N570 because of that reason haha. It frustrated me and my trickler to no end.

Michael Lares said:

Try RL 25 !

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I have 2 lbs that I've had for a very long time. But us869 is the jam for my 6.5x300 so far. More testing coming this fall.

Well, I think I have a solution...I poured N570 into a small dish and then dip into it with a 1/2 tsp and dump it into my A&D pan. Then I just trickle with the tsp until I am a few tenths short, then finish with my fingers. Much faster than fighting my measure constantly clogging.

Man, you can't make stuff like that up lol. I've got to load a bunch of 30-378 here pretty soon and the old rcbs hand thrower just plows through the main charge, then trickle with the v3. No issues

Lincoln log powders like n570 are not powder measure friendly.

This is one reason I keep my old Dandy vibratory trickler around, the yellow one with the sliding weight on the straw. It can drop single kernels if I take the time to tune it.

Props to the guy who said he can pick up kernels in gloves, that's some serious dexterity.

Eric H said:

I'm to the point that I set charges to .2 below intended and load 1 kernal at a time by hand with rubber gloves until I have the required weight.

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With RUBBER GLOVES! Tweezers ....maybe...! Or did you mean with rubber gloves holding tweezers?

With tight fitting thinner gloves like the latex gloves the kernel would stick to the tip of a finger. I could see it working. Those 570 kernels are thick and 2x+ as long as a rl26 or n560 kernel.,denser too.

skipglo said:

With RUBBER GLOVES! Tweezers ....maybe...! Or did you mean with rubber gloves holding tweezers?

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Latex works best