weighing powder charges.

[dead on]

When I buy a new can of t7' I weigh out the whole can in 73.3 gr increments and put them in individual air tight containers and store them in a 30 cal ammo can. IM NOT RECOMENDING THIS TO ANYONE BUT i HAVE FOUND THAT I GET MUCH MORE CONSISTANT GROUPS .GOOD AND BAD BY WEIGHING THE CHARGES. Anyone else had the same experiences/

[LaneNebraska]

dead on

Welcome to the Forum!!

And YES there are many of us who weight out our powder charges, and store them in air-tight tubes for range work and for hunting.

And so that other's who may be reading our posts on this subject, we usally use some definitions for Grains by Weight and Grains by Volume like this:

For BH209 Powder-- 70gW(Using Reloading Powder Scales)=100gV(Using Brass or Plastic Volumetric powder measures)

Where we have taken our Volume Powder Measures-Brass or Clear Plastic, and we throw 3 or 4 charges by volume, THEN weigh them on our reloading powder scales, take the average of those weights and then fill our tubes with that weight.

[cayugad]

I have weighed charges. I find at close range shooting there is really no difference in accuracy groups. But at longer ranges, there does seem to be something with accuracy and weighing the charge. As for weighing out an entire can, that's a commendable project. Do you have a measure that sets the charge close for you, and then you pick them off, or what?

[Semisane]

Yep, I'm a weigher most of the time, expecially with T7 and Pyrodex and when I shooting for groups. Playing around - I throw volume charges. I find that I can throw very consistent volume charges of GOEX FFFg, but not so consistent with the subs.

[SWThomas]

Welcome to the site! I don't weigh my BH209 but I respect people who do. I just don't think it's that serious.

[SteveBNy]

I actually find weighing to be faster, easier and with less(none) spillage to deal with.
Have a pan on a digital scale and pour into Lane's tubes.

Steve

[sabotloader]

dead on

While I use to weigh charges I really do not anymore. I could really never prove that it made that much difference in a hunting rifle. I also shoot T7 and really do not mind the little bit of lost powder that occurs when cutting.

The two cicumstances that I would weigh charges are if I were shooting BH, (black gold) i certainly would/do - because it is so expensive - I try not to waist a grain. the circumstance might be if I were shooting a target rifle for accuracy and money - but then i would shoot greatly reduced loads.

[lemoyne]

I have done some testing on that, my conclusions were that with most powders the finer powder that settles to the bottom of the can has more influence on the results than weighting the one exception to this is BH209 and that is because it is extruded and coated so that the bottom of the can is the same as the top.
If you have it right as far as your load and volume measuring techniques are concerned then it won't make any difference under 150 yds at longer distances it will show up some times. Lee

[falcon]

Tried weighing my chargesseveral different times.Shot weighed charges of 777, Pyrodex, JSG and Pinnacle.It was not worth the effort.