[ART338WM]

I now primarly use my Pact digital, but dbl check its deadings as well as it loadings with the very 1st powder charge and then every 10th without exception.

In over ten years of using the PACT digital powder despencer it has and I am not BSing here NEVER been off more than +/- .2 of a grain. I have a RCBS 10-10 and 505 amd love them, best out there IMHO, and i looked at all Bal/B scales from Lyman, Hornady, Lee, and Redding. I did buy a Redding scale and man what a disapointment. I dont wish to be insulting but IMO the Reddding was junk compaired to and RCBS scale, or just about any other xcpt the Lee.

[billy]

i love getting everything as exact as the next guy but i just had a thought.
if a tenth of a grain was really that important...why does lee sell those scoops that look they they came with an easybake oven?
and why werent there all kinds of horrible accidents in the past 7 or 8 decades before accurate scales were available to anyone with a little cash?

[Seabeescotty]

Billy, that's a good question! Maybe it was just dumb luck. I loaded some boar loads for my blackhawk back in the seventies, and I'm sure glad it was a Ruger. The first shot like to have broke my wrist. So I unloaded the rest, and started over again. I must have got one mixed up, 'cause my dad-in-law wanted to shoot it, and the third round dotted him purty good. When he saw the blood dripping, he decided he was done for the day. I took the rest home and weighed them to make sure there weren't any more uh-ohs. Scotty

[hickorynutk@win]

I bought a Lyman 500 on Ebay for 28 bucks, works fine. If I were loading by the 100s I'd go dig. but the beam is fine for my 20 or 40 rounds at a time. I'v never calibrated it but as long as i'm consistant I don't worry about .002 grs. one side or the other I just want every shot to be the same.

[Jimbo Indy]

I too started with the cheap Lee crap.
Gave the scale and the powder measure away and got an RCBS measure and a 10-10 scale. Will never go back.
I started getting low on 357 ammo and got into some of the stuff I loaded in bulk with the old Lee equipment. You could feel the difference from shot to shot. Many had flowing primers and one actually blew the primer out of the case and jammed the gun. Talk about overpressure! You could read the headstamp on the gun frame. Thank God for Bill Ruger and the GP-100. The Lee wouldn't meter Blue Dot worth a damn. The RCBS is spot on every time. I spot check loads and it's always right there.
The RCBS 1010 scale is a dream. The magnet dampening system only takes a second or so to settle down. Got the micrometer setting pistol for the measure (Competition Pistol model) and the resetability is awesome. Just record your setting for a load and next time you will either be right on or within a few tenths on the first try.
The only thing I buy from Lee is their dies. RCBS or Dillon form now on.