"Quick Measure" Gun Powder Measure
Has any seen / used / bought one of these expensive powder measures or know anyone that has ?
Getting tired of dealing with my Hornady powder measure when it decides to be inaccurate...
"Quick Measure" Gun Powder Measure
Has any seen / used / bought one of these expensive powder measures or know anyone that has ?
Getting tired of dealing with my Hornady powder measure when it decides to be inaccurate...
Shoot'em If You Got'em...
Kevin Rohrer uses one.
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I have one in smokeless and one in blackpowder. JDS was at the Tulsa gun show years ago and I tried it out there with several different powders. I was impressed to say the least. Ball, flake, extruded, it's my go to measure for production runs. Very easy to return to your last setting.
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r1kk1
thanks for the reply. its a chunk of cash and I am trying to find out as much as possible about it. I talked with Tim for about an hour today. Told him that I needed to mount it on my Hornady LNL progressive. He said it would do great on there. I have read some other forums where people talked about having to wait a few seconds for powder to drop. Also, I'm not clear how I can hook it up on my progressive press so that it will fill the cases by itself. Are you running yours on a progressive press ?
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Yes using his progressive mount. I PM ya Bonz.
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r1kk1
It comes with several "charge tubes" and a rather lengthy set of tables to figure which powder and what weight you want goes with which charge tube. Then minor adjustments to get the final desire grains can/will be made. It's not rocket science but it does take a while to set it up for a specific charge weight. Once set up it is dependably and consistently accurate. It is very convenient for hand held use over loading trays or for a shelf/stand mount. I have other measures that work well with ball and flake powders so this QM get the bulk of the stick powders. Also once you get it set up for a specific weight it is easy to put it back together again for that powder/weight combo, if you keep notes.
I have a Quick Measure and use it for stick powders. I love the thing. For me it is worth every cent that I spent for it.
daboone review is spot on.
I have one but haven't used it a great deal. With rifle charges it is really nice. However, the adapter Tim sells to allow small charges to be thrown really doesn't work very well. I wanted to use it for loading 9mm and other small capacity rounds and despite lots of tinkering, talking with Tim, and lots of patience, I have determined that it just doesn't work for that. Perhaps someone will chime in that has been successful loading 3.5 gr of bullseye. one other thing: it is a beautiful piece of equipment.
So my Hornady powder measure is still in service for all of my handgun calibers. I have also gained a new appreciation for it.
I could be persuaded to sell mine at a discount to new, and it has a lot of accessories.
"Is all this REALLY necessary?"
For small charges the RCBS Little Dandy works great, but the rotors have a set volume, here is a PDF chart for the powder weights.
http://rcbs.com/downloads/LittleDandyChart.pdf
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