doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com My Dillon digital scale died. Help!

To each his own, and I sincerely hope Milt finds a suitable replacement for his Dillon, but I'll keep using my old Texan balance beam scale. It has a reservoir for thin oil that a paddle is to "ride in", which is intended to slow the oscillations of the beam quicker, but I leave it empty and prefer to watch the oscillations until they settle out. As for time savings that may be available with an electronic scale, I can pass on that, too. I'm in no hurry when I reload and prefer a relaxed pace. I weigh EVERY charge for my rifles to + or - a tenth grain. Sounds like it'd take forever with my old scales, but I recently reloaded fifty .220 Swift cases exactly this way, and didn't feel like I wasted any time at all.

If I shot a lot of pistol or rifle rounds in practice and competition I'd probably do differently, but I'm gonna stick with what's been working for me for some 40+ years.

Best, SRH

I can't ever see myself using a digital scale, anyway. Like I said earlier, I have the RCBS scale with the brass pan that balances that weight of the powder. I have been using it for 25 years. I have always noticed that the pointer doesn't quite come up to the balance line every so often. Or maybe it will come up a little over the line. That's close enough for me. Dump it back in the shell and go on. As long as I don't get an extreme difference in a load of powder, I don't worry about it........... I'm sure as heck not going to go, "Uh-oh!! I'm a few flakes off! Where's my tweezers?" Then pull a few flakes of gunpowder out of a load until it's perfect. Then on the next hull, "Uh-oh! I need to add five flakes of gunpowder! I'm a little light on this one!" I'm not going to run through a box of reloads out at the club and ever notice the difference between a few flakes of gunpowder in each shell. I don't know who would. I'd bet factory loads aren't that critical!

Really, the only thing that I would want a digital scale for, is to weigh my guns. Right now I don't have any scales so I am in the process of finding one for that purpose. I have been looking at them on Amazon.