There are not many powder measures I do not have, from Ohaus to Herters cam operated, collet and dial o ‘matics’, I have RCBS Little Dandy and Uniflows, cost? The Little Dandy with 20+ rotors is an investment.
I purchased two Uniflow rotors, $10.00 each/large and small at the last Dallas Market Hall Gun Show, somewhere in all that reloading equipment is a Uniflow measure without rotors.
I get good results from the Lyman 55, the old design and the newer design, RCBS Little Dandy and the Ohaus, the Ohaus is unique because the rotor is reversible, when removed and rotated 180 degrees the rotor can be used for pistol and or rifle and it runs as smooth as if it was made of glass.
Somewhere, put away with the press that looks like a spider doing push ups I have a B&M powder measure, it may not be the same one everyone is talking about, reminds me going out of town and being told the best place to have breakfasts is............and they finish with “You ‘gotta’ eat there”, nothing beats a ‘trickler’, and then there is the ‘the best’, it is always something we do not have or it is too expensive.
And I have Dillon powder measures and adapters for changing RCBS powder measures to Dillon presses, and powder bars, I have lots of powder bars, and I match case head stamps and cases by weight. I loaded 250 30/06 cases on a Dillon 550B, when finished there was 23 grains difference between the heaviest and lightest round, 23 grains of powder could render my rifles scrap, I weighed the components, recorded the difference between cases as in lightest and heaves, Winchester cases were the lightest of the 5 groups of cases, military type cases were the heaviest, the 23 grains difference was caused by the weight of the case. Most would wonder why someone would go to the trouble.
There is no reason for me to load mixed brass with different weights, after loading X number of rounds the + and or – difference is a very small spread, I can weigh a random number of loaded rounds are all of them, there is very lottle spread.
F. Guffey
