Weight of powder

[Zonie]

OMG, why oh why are we resurrecting a Dead Post from 2007???? The OP hasn't been on this site in almost 2 YEARS !!!!

One of the nice things about muzzleloading, cap & ball revolvers and black powder is, the things that applied 13, 50 or 100 years ago still apply today.
The questions and the answers are the same then as they are now so, in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with posting something in an old post on the forum.

 

[Grenadier1758]

I have a table of 11 adjustable measures, well 9 measures with a second set of measured tapped to settle the measure of powder and one spout installed on a powder flask.

Okay this was 19 years ago, but I am still using the same measures and the differences should still be similar.

The measures were all set at 100 grains with the exception of the 70 grain tip on a flask. All were weighed on my beam scale.

We can see that the measures were all pretty close in weight except for the 0 to 200 grain adjustable measure. For the most part the differences are less than 2% of the set value. We can see that the indicated measurement is up to 4%.

So when we develop a load, select one measure and stick to it,

 

[SDSmlf]

OMG, why oh why are we resurrecting a Dead Post from 2007???? The OP hasn't been on this site in almost 2 YEARS !!!!

Because ‘we’ can?