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Posted: 7/22/2012 6:13:23 PM EDT
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Thinking of leaving the beam scale behind and going digital. Looking to see what options there are. I basically reload for my bolt rifles. I currently throw with a powder measure and trickle EVERY charge. Looking for a ideas in the $100 range and maybe even in the $250-$300 range if its worth it. Ideas? |
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I use a GemPro 250 and am very happy with it. Much more accurate than the average "reloading" scale.
Just my opinion, Mike |
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i hear good things about that gem pro.
I'm using the cheapo frankford arsenal.. works fine for me. I think any scale in that price range is going to have some issues with warm up, drift and pan placement as well as factors like the ac blowing or the scale not sitting level. I know the weight of my powder pan is 120.6 so if my scale reads anything other than 0 with the pan on or -120.6 with the pan off i know it drifted and rezero. |
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I use a GemPro 250 and am very happy with it. Much more accurate than the average "reloading" scale. Just my opinion, Mike +1 |
| Is the scale Brian Enos sells a GemPro? I think it is,thats the one I have very accurate, a fart would register on this thing. The only thing I don't like is the fact that the polished plate that sticks around the scale platform keeps popping up from humidity and can push against the platform if your not paying attention. |
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I use a GemPro 250 and am very happy with it. Much more accurate than the average "reloading" scale. Just my opinion, Mike I have one of these as well. If you are going to spend the money on a nice scale, get check weights as well. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
If I was in the market, I'd look at this one: |
Everybody's circle-jerking over the Satorius AY-123, as well. If you can't rock the price of a Prometheus II, Tier 1s are sporting this scale. Scales, scales, scales, scales, scales for one and scales for all... I think it can be had for twice the price of the 'on sale' GemPro 250. Chris |
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I found that a couple of these on the cords of my digital scales helped tremendously with stopping drift. I think I paid about $2 for each cord clamp. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac191/gasdoc09/gempro250.jpg Bump for more replies/relevant to my interests. Gasdoc09–– How do the cord wraps affect drift, exactly? Do they (somehow) neutralize electronic interference/etc? |
| Since you trickle every charge and mentioned you would be willing to pay $250-$300 for something worth it, I would seriously consider a product like the RCBS Chargemaster 1500. I have one and it works great. Natchez has the best price on them that I have been able to find. That is where I bought mine several years ago. Apparently, RCBS is also offering a rebate on their products right now, so that would drop the price a little more. Hornady also sells a similar device called the LNL Auto Charge. Graf's has the best price on that as far as my 5 minute search at the usual suspects shows. The Hornady unit is cheaper than the RCBS, but I have not used it so I cannot offer an opinion on how well it works. |
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I found that a couple of these on the cords of my digital scales helped tremendously with stopping drift. I think I paid about $2 for each cord clamp. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac191/gasdoc09/gempro250.jpg Bump for more replies/relevant to my interests. Gasdoc09–– How do the cord wraps affect drift, exactly? Do they (somehow) neutralize electronic interference/etc? They're supposed to reduce interference. I haven't done any really controlled studies with it, ie I haven't removed them 1/2 way through a reloading session just to see what happens. I just know that my Hornady autocharge drifted like crazy and needed CONSTANT re-zeroing before I put them on the cords. I was rezeroing every 5 rounds when loading precision rounds. Now I rarely have to rezero - I put check weights on the scales every 15 or 20 minutes, and they aren't drifting any more. It could be something about my utility power, my reloading room, other appliances near my setup, etc ... but whatever it was that was screwing with my scales, they fixed it. Heres's the wikipedia page on how they work. Apparently they function as a low pass filter that cuts down on high frequency noise. I don't have a clue how or why that noise exists, or how it affects electronic scales. Just that I'm satisfied with my $8 investment. 
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| Sound like you want something nice... But i went smart and cheap. Heres what i did.... Went to amazon scientific area, found a scale with calibration weight that offered grains as an option.... Ended up less than half the price of a comparable reloading branded scale. Has worked well for me for over 7000 rounds... Would never consider a beam over it.... |
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I found that a couple of these on the cords of my digital scales helped tremendously with stopping drift. I think I paid about $2 for each cord clamp. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac191/gasdoc09/gempro250.jpg Bump for more replies/relevant to my interests. Gasdoc09–– How do the cord wraps affect drift, exactly? Do they (somehow) neutralize electronic interference/etc? They're supposed to reduce interference. I haven't done any really controlled studies with it, ie I haven't removed them 1/2 way through a reloading session just to see what happens. I just know that my Hornady autocharge drifted like crazy and needed CONSTANT re-zeroing before I put them on the cords. I was rezeroing every 5 rounds when loading precision rounds. Now I rarely have to rezero - I put check weights on the scales every 15 or 20 minutes, and they aren't drifting any more. It could be something about my utility power, my reloading room, other appliances near my setup, etc ... but whatever it was that was screwing with my scales, they fixed it. Heres's the wikipedia page on how they work. Apparently they function as a low pass filter that cuts down on high frequency noise. I don't have a clue how or why that noise exists, or how it affects electronic scales. Just that I'm satisfied with my $8 investment. Your results speak for themselves. Thanks for the tip. |
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