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    • May 24, 2020 at 12:19 pm #6912
      Kenneth Thomas
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      How many are still using mechanical beam scales? I bit the bullet and now using electronic but also I bought a vintage mechanical scale and it’s very sensitive to one kernel of Varget. The electronic is claimed to be accurate to 0.01 and is a lot faster. I’ve check them both against each other a they seem to be right together. I had a magnetic beam scale that seemed to stick or was hard to move and lost confidence in it. I’m ol fashioned I guess and like the vintage scale best, it’s just slow and rocks forever unless you stop gently stop it.

    • May 24, 2020 at 1:55 pm #6913
      Richard Slaton
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      I’m on my second beam scale this one (RCBS) I’ve used for over 30 years
      I bought one of the cheaper digital (Lyman I think) a few years back after I tried using it a couple time it got chucked and the beam Scale came back out. I probably need to up grade my scale but before I bought a digital I would have to try it out first or get good reviews from someone I knew. I’m all ears

    • May 24, 2020 at 9:58 pm #6915
      brett collins
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      KENNETH save yourself time and headaches and get your self a FX120I

    • May 24, 2020 at 10:24 pm #6916
      Richard Slaton
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      Just my luck their of stock 🤪

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    • May 25, 2020 at 7:26 pm #6918
      brett collins
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      RICHARD i am a big fan of the buy once and cry once club

    • May 26, 2020 at 8:28 am #6919
      Richard Slaton
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      I’m a tight wad It just an’t in my DNA
      To spend any we’re close to $1400 for something to measure powder lol

    • May 26, 2020 at 11:41 am #6920
      brett collins
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      i did not pay anywhere close to that if my memory is correct it was about $800

    • May 28, 2020 at 8:41 pm #6925
      scott parten
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      I have an original OLHAUS beam scale that belonged to my grandfather that’s at least 40 years old that I trust. I bought a gem pro 250 but was not impressed. I found a used Sartorius GD503 off Ebay that I use now with a dandy electronic trickler that measures to the kernel.
      This is one of several things I changed over the last year and I believe it helped. I’m pretty confident of my load when I believe I’m only plus or minus 1 kernel of powder from case to case.

    • June 1, 2020 at 11:02 am #6939
      Ron Williams
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      Autotrickler is the only way to go.

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