ORIGINAL: Etienne Brule
ORIGINAL: Red Lion
I used a lee diper the first time out shooting my savage, but have weighed my charges prior to the range since then. I like knowing my exact loads when shooting. By the way a 250 SST will go right on through a deer as well.
Hi,
Hereis my own experience and I do not know if that can be applied to others...
I made some tests to weigh charges and compare with the Lee dipers: I was NEVER able to get the same loads!
There was always some differences ( = or > 0.5 grains ); those differences opened my grouping up to 12 inches at 100 meters.... grr...
Since then, I take the time to
weigh every load and put them in some plastic bottles for the day after.
This is my experience.
Etienne Brule.
I definitely can not argue with your results as obviously could happen. You can work up a regime of using a lee dipper with a powder such as 5744, such as making sure to run a straight edge over the lip of the dipper once full, and end up getting pretty close to the same, but not exact charge. I would only do this with 5744 and not with a powder like 4198 where every half grn to grn makes a big difference though.