Good point Jethro. I never have used substitutes so I forget to toss that in.
That's a hopeful sign. An empty head can't hurt. :grin:colorado clyde said:Spence.....you're making my head hurt.... :haha:
necchi said:Well then we can disagree.
Volume marks on a store-bought brass measure and weight of the same amount of powder are seldom equal.
Yours is in this case because they where specifically matched.
The real deal in this case is, Your custom measure is made to hold 70 weighed grain of Goex 2F powder.
It's no more complicated then that.
I hear that. The first adjustable brass measure I bought when I started in BP threw 130 grains when set for 110.necchi said:I just don't want folks to get the idea they can go out and buy an adjustable measure set it at 70 and expect that to equal 70 by weight,, it may,, but only on rare occasion.
I did that for all my measures and was not impressed with their accuracy. Most were close, but one was pretty far off so that I retired it. They tend to have progressive and cumulative errors, not far off on the low end of the scale, but getting worse as you measure larger charges.Flintlock58 said:Thank you for an interesting conversation. I now have a scale and will be checking all my powder measures.
Rather than spend range time practicing and becoming proficient with a rifle, many shooters have a propensity to overanalyse their components: weighing balls, micrometer measurements for ball and patch thickness, scale weight for powder. This is fine for modern cartridge firearms, but the beauty of black powder is that it is less sensitive to weight/volume measurement variations than smokeless technology.
So True.AZbpBurner said:Step back from the digital scale & micrometer, and go shoot - develop your skill rather than blame for imprecise measurements & weights.
...that measure consistently delivers the same amount of the powder...
When I find the amount of powder that is most accurate for a given firearm, I stick with it. How many grains it is or what it weighs is not important to me, as long as I continue to use the same measuring device.Jethro224 said:We've all been talking in circles here because the whole point Spence was trying to get across in his original post was;
...that measure consistently delivers the same amount of the powder...
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