Geezerbiker
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With the return of my K-Hornet from a 2 year exile at a gunsmith shop, I figured I'd celebrate with a new digital scale. Someone here recommended a jewelry scale from Amazon. It wasn't at all expensive so I bought one. My first impression was this thing is tiny. The pan that comes with it is useless for reloading but the one from my 502 RCBS scale fits just fine so I'm good there.
I wasted no time in checking the calibration and it was so close that it would have been silly to mess with it. The 10g calibration weights tested out to 10.003g for both of them and it exactly doubled with both of them.
Next I switched the scale to the grains scale and tested the weights then checked to see out my very old RCBS 502 scale did. It came out to about .15 grains off. So I'll deal with calibrating it later but it's good to know that after all these years and maybe a dozen moves it as good as it is.
First on my agenda was to load some 9mm Luger rounds. I set up my Lyman powder measure and proceeded to set it to drop 5.2gr of W231. With the 502 scale it's hard to see minor fluctuations in the loads dropped by this measure but with the digital scale I could see that with my best handling, the best I could to was to dial it in to a variance of 5.1 to 5.2 grains. I suppose that's close enough but I would have preferred them all to be 5.2 grains. Again I suppose that my loads with this tool have never been closer than that but I didn't know...
I was sure I knew where all my K-Hornet ammo and brass were, I found that I had completely forgotten. I searched all the usual places and found that I have a lot more .223 Rem stuff than I remembered but either I can't remember where I put it or I'm missing a couple hundred Hornet cases. As near as I can tell I'm still missing about 100 new PPU cases and 100 once fired Remington cases. I'm tired of looking and if they're here, I'll find them the next time look for something else.
I found 93 pieces of once fire Winchester brass that I had sized and primed a very long time ago. So I'll load those first. I also have some bulk 45gr Remington hollow points that I probably bought 20 years ago. I figure I'll use those first. By the time I got all set up and got out a fresh can of 4227, I decided I needed a break. Damn I feel old...
Tony
I wasted no time in checking the calibration and it was so close that it would have been silly to mess with it. The 10g calibration weights tested out to 10.003g for both of them and it exactly doubled with both of them.
Next I switched the scale to the grains scale and tested the weights then checked to see out my very old RCBS 502 scale did. It came out to about .15 grains off. So I'll deal with calibrating it later but it's good to know that after all these years and maybe a dozen moves it as good as it is.
First on my agenda was to load some 9mm Luger rounds. I set up my Lyman powder measure and proceeded to set it to drop 5.2gr of W231. With the 502 scale it's hard to see minor fluctuations in the loads dropped by this measure but with the digital scale I could see that with my best handling, the best I could to was to dial it in to a variance of 5.1 to 5.2 grains. I suppose that's close enough but I would have preferred them all to be 5.2 grains. Again I suppose that my loads with this tool have never been closer than that but I didn't know...
I was sure I knew where all my K-Hornet ammo and brass were, I found that I had completely forgotten. I searched all the usual places and found that I have a lot more .223 Rem stuff than I remembered but either I can't remember where I put it or I'm missing a couple hundred Hornet cases. As near as I can tell I'm still missing about 100 new PPU cases and 100 once fired Remington cases. I'm tired of looking and if they're here, I'll find them the next time look for something else.
I found 93 pieces of once fire Winchester brass that I had sized and primed a very long time ago. So I'll load those first. I also have some bulk 45gr Remington hollow points that I probably bought 20 years ago. I figure I'll use those first. By the time I got all set up and got out a fresh can of 4227, I decided I needed a break. Damn I feel old...
Tony