What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Hatchdog]

What did I do at my reloading bench today”
...I spilled my powder trickler full of the H4895 I drove 100 miles round trip to buy.

Ouch! I do hope you recovered the spilled powder. The Lyman trickler that I use is heavily weighted at the bottom and luckily doesn't require a step up to reach over the scale and powder pan. I could be wrong, but yours seems to sit high enough that you wouldn't need to set it on that box, either.

A weighted base would be nice, I wonder if the current Lyman still has the weighted base. No, my RCBS won’t clear the scale pan but I’m willing to invest in a Lyman if it will both be tall enough and have the weighted base you mentioned. I did recover most of the spilled powder but when it spilled the quote from the Crown print ad immediately popped into my mind. I’ve loaded several thousand cartridges with that set up and never had a spill. That is not until powder became scarce. i really need to invest in a RCBS Chargemaster dispenser/scale combo one of these days. My method is pretty slow, I use a Uniflow measure to throw a charge a few tenth’s light and trickle up to the desired weight. Only for rifle cartridges that I care about accuracy. For handgun and .223 AR ammo I use a Lee turret press with the Lee auto disc measure.

[CT_Shooter]

I wonder if the current Lyman still has the weighted base.

Yes. It does.
https://amazon.com/gp/product/B07MY1Q6YK/

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[BigAl52]

Its alot of fun Tom. I like shooting steel with the muzzleloaders as much as centerfire its at a much slower pace.

Did you check on the buffalo target?

Just ordered it Forty. Got a 10% discount and an additional target for free. Black Friday deal. Make it Ring targets guy has a great selection especially if u want animal targets.

[fortyshooter]

Sounds like a great deal!

[Vaquero]

What's the size of it, Al?

RP

[BigAl52]

Its the 12x24 Randy in 3/8 AR 500 steel. Its a hanging one. Check them out at Make It Ring

[Hatchdog]

I wonder if the current Lyman still has the weighted base.

Yes. It does.
https://amazon.com/gp/product/B07MY1Q6YK/





Thanks for the link. I opened it up earlier yesterday and saw Amazon had three on hand. Since I am making a trip today for powder and other stuff I thought I would check the store for the Lyman trickler. Went back into Amazon a few hours to confirm the price and they were down to one. So I ordered it as I wasn’t sure the store I’m going to stocks Lyman products.

I got to thinking that I bought my RCBS in the 80’s sometime when all we had were balance beam scales. My trickler worked fine with my old 505 scale but when I upgraded to the current electronic scale I found the trickler was too short. Not being the sharpest knife in the drawer I didn’t even think that tricklers have been updated to use with these new scales. Duh!

I did manage to “old school” trickle 154 7.62x51 cartridges and they are all ready for action!

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[BigAl52]

https://www.amazon.com/RCBS-98923-Charg ... NrPXRydWU=

I have one of these and love it Hatch. But the price has gone up quite a bit. I didnt pay even close to that for mine and I know they can be bought on sale quite a bit cheaper.

[BigAl52]

They also make another version of this one called the Lite. Its cheaper and Lyman makes one also.

[Hatchdog]

^^^^^^^

That Chargemaster is on my list to get. I bought one of the Lymans a couple of years ago and it wasn’t very accurate so I took it back to the shop where I bought it. After returning it I read that fluorescent lights can affect these units and I have two fluorescent lights in my reloading room. Good chance my results with the Lyman were skewed. The Lite is considerably less expensive but doesn’t appear to have a scale, just the dispenser. On a local forum a member just bought the Chargemaster from Natchez for 299.00 and that’s tempting.