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Old 02-18-2017, 04:00 PM
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[QUOTE=falcon;4294639]Powder measures are all over the place, especially the u-vue types. This is the only measure i use:


http://www.eabco.net/Thompson-Center...e_p_13724.html


Did a lot of testing of weighed charges. Should have used the time for a productive purpose. Any small increase in accuracy with weighed charges was not worth the trouble.


In the 60s and 70s i went to a lot of black powder shoots. Most contestants measured their powder with an open top measure. The measure was filled slightly over full and then "struck off" with a finger; no shaking, no tapping no nothing else.[/QUOTE]

Yep - totally agree... that is the same thing I found also. External atmospheric have a far greater effect than +/- a few grains of powder. BP and BP subs do not show the same pressure increase or decrease as does smokeless powders. since I was a re-loader for so many years it really rook me awhile to figure BP out.
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