My challenge is finding a node! I suspect it is a combination of lack of shooting skill (most likely due to lack of focused practice) and secondarily the rifles themselves. In any event, this thread gives me confidence that while time consuming, my process for measuring charge weight is not increasing my group sizes.
My loading process is to drop the powder using the powder measure on the Dillon 550 set to drop at least 0.3 grains less than my target weight. This ensures that the dropped charge is very rarely overweight. Then I put the charge on my balance and trickle (by hand) until I reach the target charge. I can get within 0.05 grains that way. The balance is marked at 0.1 grain intervals. I get within 0.05 grains by never stopping before the target charge and then removing a kernel (or more) if necessary to get back to within 0.05 over. It takes me about a minute per loaded round. I can get closer than 0.05 but the time spent grows non-linearly. By the way, my hand trickler is just an empty brass with spent primer filled with powder. I simply angle it over the tray and tap it with my finger while watching the scale.
Question: What would be my best bang for the buck in increasing my loading speed while maintaining the same charge weight accuracy?
My loading process is to drop the powder using the powder measure on the Dillon 550 set to drop at least 0.3 grains less than my target weight. This ensures that the dropped charge is very rarely overweight. Then I put the charge on my balance and trickle (by hand) until I reach the target charge. I can get within 0.05 grains that way. The balance is marked at 0.1 grain intervals. I get within 0.05 grains by never stopping before the target charge and then removing a kernel (or more) if necessary to get back to within 0.05 over. It takes me about a minute per loaded round. I can get closer than 0.05 but the time spent grows non-linearly. By the way, my hand trickler is just an empty brass with spent primer filled with powder. I simply angle it over the tray and tap it with my finger while watching the scale.
Question: What would be my best bang for the buck in increasing my loading speed while maintaining the same charge weight accuracy?