Thread: Auto powder dispensers

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

If you have a look at some of the US shooting forums there's quite a lot of debate on the issue of powde metering and the general consensus seems to be that the likes of the charge masters etc are great for "hunting accuracy" or loading pistols etc but if you actually want real accuracy then you can't beat a thrower and then trickling using a good beam scale. Trickling aside, there's a lot of throwers that are every bit as accurate as the autos and even more so in some cases. Just revisited some of those threads and funnily enough there's a lot of guys that reckon the Lee thrower is one of those "bahco knives" type items, it's cheap, and it does as good or better a job than all the more expensive options. Your mate who was getting 5gr (!!!??) differences in charge weights was obviously doing something very wrong and probably shouldn't be allowed near any powder, electronic thrower or not.

I was using a lee thrower and found it to be inconsistent and would throw different depending how full or empty the hopper was.
I agree in part that using a thrower either manual or auto then trickling the last .3gn into the pan on your scale is the most accurate way. This is what i do with my chargemaster lite