Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles I need a new powder measure

Ordered a Competition from Amazon. I’ll keep you posted.

Nothing more than a Uniflow with micrometer adjustment screws and their 5.99 baffle thrown in. They think real highly of those screws, 50-60 bucks per.

The difference was $27.

I make three times that every dance.




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Jeebus dude lighten up. You can buy the large/small screws that will fit any Uniflow depending on whether you have both large/ small cylinders. I don’t really give a damn how much you make or spend, question was proposed on what difference the competition was.
I answered.

I'll be curious how it works for you when it arrives. I've looked at the upgrade kits to make the regular Uniflow into a competition version, but mine works so well for what I use it for I can't convince myself to change it. But then I've been using it for at least 40 years so I know all its little quirks.... besides, for the small difference in cost I would have gone that route also...

Bob

Lighten up, Francis, that was a joke. Getting paid to dance, like a stripper, $81 in singles every dance.

Oh, ok. I have a micrometer adjustment for my uniflow. I tried to like it, but prefer the smaller one that came with the uniflow.
Dang, I should have looked to see what the difference was. I tried to like the larger micrometer adjust screw, but didn't like it very much. It seemed too big to me, and added extra weight to the handle. I'm like you Bob, I'm so used to the regular adjustment screw that I just turn it where I think it should be and am generally only off by a few grains and then its simple to adjust from that point. I was thinking the other day that its funny when I've made the initial adjustment and found it to be spot on. Its just a matter of learning the system. When I'm working up loads and bumping up charge weights by 1/2 grain, I just adjust the measure and set the scale and 90% of the time it is right on the money.

9 out of 10 times the Harrells is superior to the Uniflow...............
The 1 out of 10 times it is not is with flake powder, a Harrells will not throw flake powder and the Uniflow will

Lyman 55 is how I roll.

Timely thread...I have the PPM and it's good with stick powders. Definitely leaks with ball. I'd like a powder measure that's accurate.

Someone missed your humor.

I did not.

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Yep. The thing I like most about the Harrell's is the precisely positive micrometer adjustment. You can adjust for a specific charge using a scale, go about re-adjusting for other powders/charges, and come back to the original setting and it'll be absolutely right on. Another for-instance: I know with mine that 5 increments equals .5 grain of 4227 which is a boon when when working with my single shot cast bullet target rifles and load testing at the range while breech seating bullets and working with one cartridge case. That feature, to me, makes the high price worthwhile. Mine even works darned good with coarser stick powders like 4198 and 4759, but in all honesty I have no clue about really coarse stick powders as I haven't tried it with them. For them I use the Belding&Mull.

For flake powder pistol charges I still use the old Belding&Mull too.

Well, everyone knows Oklahomans possess above average intelligence.




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in the movie Officer and a Gentleman ,that`s not what the black Officer said at the beginning of the movie ?

The Lyman is a fine powder measure. The only problem is the time to set it. I know people who have several set for different charge weights.
That’s what I like about the Harrells. Repeatable settings. Hasbeen

Accurate with what kind of powder? That may be the better question... I have no issues at all with ball powder and flake powder with the uniflow. I don't load a ton of pistol ammo, just enough to do the monthly bowling pin shoots with 3 different pistols. Rifle on the other hand, I will sit down and load 1,000 223's at a time. That is just a little over 3 hours on the single stage. Accuracy can also be interpreted as how well your loads shoot downrange as well as how accurately or precisely powder is dispensed. Here's my take: I have all but switched to finer powders that meter very accurately out of my uniflow for the smaller rifle cartridges I shoot. This includes the 223, 6x45, 22-250, and some slightly larger hunting cartridges like my 7mm08 and 308win. I still drop and trickle charges in for my precision loads that I use in competition. Well one of the cartridges I use in competition anyway (6.5 creedmoor). My uniflow does not drop consistent enough charges of H4350 to suit my needs. This is what I like, when I can get it:

These are weighed charges^^

Now, I shoot the same events with my 22-250 on less windy days. Its surprising how well that little bullet does, even at 600 yards:

and at 400 yards:



These loads are all just dropped from the uniflow. I've checked mine and it's never even close to a 1/10th of a grain off with ball powders or fine extruded stuff. Once set, its there and I don't use baffles either. Never have seen the need to do so. Now, I've experimented with powders like H4895 and did a comparison between dropped charges from the uniflow where there is as much as 3/10 of a grain difference and dropped/trickled and weighed charges:


Now, the same load and rifle, but with weighed charges:


That's a substantial difference. So, in terms of "accuracy", the proof is always going to be downrange on target as well as what the scale tells you. All of my plinking ammo for my AR's is loaded straight from the uniflow to the case in the loading block. Accuracy is always sub moa in my good rifles and right around moa with the others:


Also, as for a powder measure that "leaks" out onto the loading bench, I would have ripped the mother fu cker out and thrown it away. That's just me though.. I can live with having to drop and trickle the rest in on extruded powders. That is just a 6-8 second per case affair anyway. Not a huge inconvenience.

you might consider getting a machine like RCBS or Lyman has where you type in the grains you want and it provides within .1 grains. I was looking for a RCBVS unit and found a Lyman - I'm happy with the Lyman.