Tahquamenon
Yes, underdstood. I was thinking along those same lines - use a good quality scale to premeasure volume based loads to ensure a more consistent shot to shot powder charge. I'm a complete ML newbie so I'd like to assist my powder charge "muscles" and throw technique as best I can here.

Underclocked
And yes to you as well. Your input is exactly what I had in mind. Being a newbie I don't know what my powder charge throw accuracy will be using the typical volume measure tools - I believe I followed your advice to buy one of the T/C clear volume measures ... thanks again. Noted on the need to apply consistent shot to shot pressure on the components in the barrel too! I was planning on getting some 'practice' using the bathroom scale to start!

I'm starting to get the feeling that load nirvana will be when one finds the right combination of components, ML cleaned/prep'd the same, and everything loaded the same such that the "small" variations in each aspect have minimal effect on accuracy, etc ...

Thanks to underclocked and cayugad for portable scale recommendations too!

cheers,
phil