Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Looking for powder measure advice

Get the Harrell's and record your micrometer settings. Hodgdons 1 lb bottles screw right on top. If you need extra power bottles the Costco vitamin bottles screw right on as well. With fine grain powders I dump straight into the case, measuring every so often to ensure consistency. Great for volume loads or BR accuracy.

Just a little advice, use it as you will. If you have a plastic canister or anything plastic in your powder handling equipment, wipe them with a dryer sheet to rid them of static electricity. Used sheets work fine. miles

Yep. Dryer sheets are a good deal. Used is best. New is overkill.

Thank you all for your suggestions.



Yes, I've got a little project coming together.



Clark, Thanks for your post, I just went to their website and read about the Johnson Design Quick measure. I wish I hadn't already ordered the BR3. I was hoping to avoid having a bunch of redundancy, but I may succumb yet.



Thanks Grand, I'm off to read about the Harrells now.

Miles and Dave thanks for the tip on the dryer sheets.

I understand you wanting to get the right tools the first time. I've been there and no matter what or when you order, there will always be something new and better.

I reload on a large tool box and like my stuff compact and well organized and have a habit of getting rid of equipment I don't use or want laying around. I don't think you will ever regret buying the BR-3. It should always have a home on your bench even if you "upgrade" down the road.

Once I set my Harrell's I only check weight when I hit the end of a reloading block. It has never been off. I Have an RCBS, an old Lyman, and a newer Hornady, they just take up shelf space unless I am loading something that takes a lot of powder. Harrell's measures are worth every penny and then some.

Blue (RIO7) has one of those fancy automatic RCBS measures that you just punch in the weight you want and it does the rest. Afraid to price one, but it does work great. miles

Why the hell does it matter if your trickling up to weight? Just get a set of lee dippers.

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I have a set of those that I got in a package deal when buying something else, and use them a lot when working up loads where everything is different. Once it is decided on I use my Lee Perfect weighing every 10th load. Never had it be wrong, but I still check. miles

Its really hard to beat the little Lee Perfect for what it costs and what it does. I proved that to myself by trying one. I have a lot of throwers and one day finally decided to try the brand new Lee I had for about 15-20 years. Its a flimsy looking little plastic thing but man does that thing drop accurate charges. I couldn't believe it. Where it will really shine is with long grain IMR powders.

How repeatable is the Lee's adjustment?

Once I've established the calibration of my Redding BR30 adjustment dial to a particular lot of powder I often don't even break out the scale. Fill the hopper, set the dial, throw a few settling charges, and off to the races.

Never tried to keep up with it. I weigh charges when setting it up. There is a published list that will get you close, but I don't remember where I saw it. I bought my measure used and it had no list with it. miles

+1 on the Lee Perfect it's the best $26.00 dollars I ever spent.