I purchased a brass measure based on the recommendation of the sales person at a gun shop... it has a cut off funnel which works well. However, if I had it to do over again, I would buy a see through measure. I am also new to ML, and have had powder left in the measure as I pulled it away from the barrel... spillingthe last bit on the ground (had to dump the partial load in the barrel, clean it to make sure it was all out, and reload.. a real pain). I also found I needed to tap the funnel on the inside of the barrel to make sure all the powder is out of the measure. With a see through measure I could have avoided these "newbie" problems.