Swifty Morgan
New member
I have been having some very annoying problems getting my 10mm loads to work, and right now, it looks like the culprit is my old Lyman 1500 something or other scale.
I got the scale in around 2009. It's a small digital job. I thought I was doing the right thing when I got it. It seemed to work fine back then, but now it appears to be giving me undersize loads in spite of calibration.
I figured I would fix the problem by getting another digital. It's 2020. They must be much cheaper and better, right? That was what I thought. I didn't want a balance. I don't want to sit around poking a balance when I can get a digital to give me readings in a second or two.
I read that all the inexpensive ones are unreliable. I also read that "inexpensive" includes scales costing hundreds of dollars.
What do I really need to get accurate weights for both pistols and rifles? I want to know that 12.4 grains doesn't really mean 12.3 or 12.5. I don't care if it's actually 12.37. I just want to be close to the nearest tenth. A scale with an accuracy of +/- one tenth puts you in a two tenths range, and that seems pretty big.
I was surprised to learn how much you have to spend to get accuracy. If I were just throwing .45 ACP practice rounds together, it wouldn't matter, but I would also like to make rounds that are somewhat hot, with less margin for error.
I can get an A&D scale for not much less money than I would pay for a new pistol. I think it would solve my problem forever, but I hate to throw money at a problem if I don't need to.
I got the scale in around 2009. It's a small digital job. I thought I was doing the right thing when I got it. It seemed to work fine back then, but now it appears to be giving me undersize loads in spite of calibration.
I figured I would fix the problem by getting another digital. It's 2020. They must be much cheaper and better, right? That was what I thought. I didn't want a balance. I don't want to sit around poking a balance when I can get a digital to give me readings in a second or two.
I read that all the inexpensive ones are unreliable. I also read that "inexpensive" includes scales costing hundreds of dollars.
What do I really need to get accurate weights for both pistols and rifles? I want to know that 12.4 grains doesn't really mean 12.3 or 12.5. I don't care if it's actually 12.37. I just want to be close to the nearest tenth. A scale with an accuracy of +/- one tenth puts you in a two tenths range, and that seems pretty big.
I was surprised to learn how much you have to spend to get accuracy. If I were just throwing .45 ACP practice rounds together, it wouldn't matter, but I would also like to make rounds that are somewhat hot, with less margin for error.
I can get an A&D scale for not much less money than I would pay for a new pistol. I think it would solve my problem forever, but I hate to throw money at a problem if I don't need to.