Dropping Charges and Weighing Each Charge?

[General RE LEE]

I did a first tonight. I've always dropped and weighed each charge and trickled if needed.

For years I've noticed many ball powders are spot on or .01 off when dropping charges.

I decided to load some 6 ARC with Ramshot TAC and drop changes, skip the scale and load the case. I did drop a few charges to get it set up on 27.5 grains and off I went.

Is this the beauty of ball powders? It's much faster. Anyone else loading ball powder chargers without weighing each charge? How are results at the range?

 

[Laguna Freak]

It is a beauty of ball powders. I can't recall if Tac has good temperature stability above 85 F. For me, it's all about total performance with rifle powder. Some extruded powders are just way better in some geographies and cartridge : bullet combos. For handguns, the ball powders are great most everywhere.

 

[JiggyIi]

I drop powder, & check every 10th load on the scale, a RCBS 10-10

 

[FireFlyFishing]

All the time on my Dillon. Just keep pulling the lever and watch ammo come out.

 

[dmj]

Ball powder is great, don't use it real often but when I do I still check the weight every few drops.

 

[General RE LEE]

It is a beauty of ball powders. I can't recall if Tac has good temperature stability above 85 F. For me, it's all about total performance with rifle powder. Some extruded powders are just way better in some geographies and cartridge : bullet combos. For handguns, the ball powders are great most everywhere.

I'm in Tennessee and shoot mostly winter, spring and fall. If I'm going to shoot when it's hot, I'll just run H4350 (6.5 CM) or Varget (308, 6 ARC). April-September is golf, September-March is hunting and shooting.