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#6 and #55 powder measure
Oct 5th, 2013 at 7:42am
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Are the two measures slide bar's graduation's in drams or grains? thanks for your answer. Hank45
  
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Re: #6 and #55 powder measure
Reply #1 - Oct 5th, 2013 at 8:31am
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Grains.
  
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Re: #6 and #55 powder measure
Reply #2 - Oct 5th, 2013 at 8:46am
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They are set to correspond roughly to grains of black powder. If you are using smokeless You will need to try charges and weigh them to determine what they correspond to in weight of your particular powder.
  
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Re: #6 and #55 powder measure
Reply #3 - Oct 5th, 2013 at 9:14am
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With BP charges of 20 g. or more, I've found the slide graduations so close to what they should be that I don't even bother to test-weigh them anymore.
  
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Re: #6 and #55 powder measure
Reply #4 - Oct 10th, 2013 at 9:18am
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With your powder measure should be a card or sheet that shows how much smokeless of various types per mark on the drum.  The marks are, of course, for black powder.  So for blackpowder, I use them direct.  In my little booklet that came with my #55, were all of those wonderful powders that we lost due to ww ll.  Even Sharpshooter, very accurate, but hard on barrels.
  
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