With the right, ball, flake or short extruded powders, a powder measure is great. For longer stick powders like VARGET, R19, etc, it really needs to be used to fill the pan and then trickle up to weight, IMO. I suppose it could be just thrown, but the variations would be high like +/- .4 grains or so. I think I did a 10 throw test withVARGET and found +/- .3 to be my absolute variation. It has been a while. For accuracy, that isn't good enough for me.

Dippers would be nice, I never thought about that! I setup to throw, trickle and weigh.