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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3931 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:01pm	Print Post
	Suggestions for accurate for really small powder charges. Is there a modern powder measure? I have a Belding and Mull, wondering if there was anything newer.

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rgchristensen Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1140 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2014	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #1 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:45pm	Print Post
	Cat_Whisperer wrote on Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:01pm: Suggestions for accurate for really small powder charges. Is there a modern powder measure? I have a Belding and Mull, wondering if there was anything newer. I have made a bushing for the big Hollywood that works pretty good for 2-5 gr CHRIS RGChristensen


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Dellet Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 1130 Joined: May 19^th, 2017	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #2 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:48pm	Print Post
	Maybe define small? Harrells pistol/Schuetzen measure works very well. As with most measures it’s best in mid range 8-15 grains. Book says 2-25 grains. Their other measures are for different weights (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)


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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1999 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #3 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:51pm	Print Post
	Harrel's make a schuetzen measure that is aimed at small charges for small capacity cases and or large cases as common to schuetzen cartridges. They are very accurate, but also expensive. Teamed with an accurate scale, hard to beat. Your Belding and Mull is still a very accurate measure, and one can usually find one for less than $100. And again with a very accurate scale, hard to improve on. The Harrel's are $230+/-

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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1999 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #4 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:58pm	Print Post
	a few responses while I was still typing. The Harrel's has increased considerably since I purchased mine 30 years ago, like about $100 increase. Thanks "at least in part" Biden!!

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16732 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #5 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 3:06pm	Print Post
	I love my Harrell's scheutzen measure for pistol or small rifle charges. It does everything up to most of my .40 caliber rifle charges, even my longer .40-85 Ballard with smokeless. It also does excellent small charges like you want.

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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3931 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #6 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 3:27pm	Print Post
	Dellet wrote on Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:48pm: Maybe define small? Harrells pistol/Schuetzen measure works very well. As with most measures it’s best in mid range 8-15 grains. Book says 2-25 grains. Their other measures are for different weights It is the Harrells pistol/Schuetzen that I find is NOT consistent in the 2-3 gr range. Absolutely not with Unique and occasionally not using Bullseye. It is not bridging. But occasionally I'm getting a smaller charge than the previous six or ten. It IS an extremely well built device (I have two).

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Pentz Senior Forum Member Offline Funf und Zwanzig mit den Hut Posts: 433 Location: Vancouver, WA Joined: Sep 4^th, 2014	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #7 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 3:53pm	Print Post
	Although I love my Harrels Schuetzen measure I've caught it throwing the odd half-grain light charge when check-measured against my Creedmore 925.

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7393 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #8 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 4:40pm	Print Post
	For breech seating my 22rf, I made a powder measure out of the large chamber Redding. I just pressed a bushing, 3/4 x 1/4 into the rotor and turned down the spindle to fit, inside of it. I tested it for accuracy and it was VERY accurate. It had to be. My charges ran between 1.5 & 2.2 gr of mostly B'eye so, it had to do no worse than +/- .05 gr. It had a capacity of about 1cc. It's not hard to do but, you need a lathe to turn the bushing to the outside diameter of the rotor. I would show a picture but, I gave the rifle and powder measure to my son, in AZ. You could also try the Redding Pistol measure. It has a ID of 5/16 and see how that does. That's what I used on all my other SS loads and it's very accurate in the 10 -25 gr range.

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GunBum Full Member Offline Posts: 239 Location: SW Missouri Joined: Oct 30^th, 2021	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #9 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 6:17pm	Print Post
	Pretty much everyone… Harrell, Redding, RCBS, etc make a pistol version or insert for their powder measures.


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Dellet Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 1130 Joined: May 19^th, 2017	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #10 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 6:59pm	Print Post
	Cat_Whisperer wrote on Mar 1^st, 2025 at 3:27pm: Dellet wrote on Mar 1^st, 2025 at 1:48pm: Maybe define small? Harrells pistol/Schuetzen measure works very well. As with most measures it’s best in mid range 8-15 grains. Book says 2-25 grains. Their other measures are for different weights It is the Harrells pistol/Schuetzen that I find is NOT consistent in the 2-3 gr range. Absolutely not with Unique and occasionally not using Bullseye. It is not bridging. But occasionally I'm getting a smaller charge than the previous six or ten. It IS an extremely well built device (I have two). My choice under 4-5 grains is actually an old RCBS with a pistol drum and micrometer thimble. It seem to be much better with stick and flake powders and using a baffle.


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Longdistance1 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 448 Location: Amidon, ND Joined: Feb 11^th, 2013	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #11 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 8:15pm	Print Post
	A Ohaus duo-meisure works great with wc820 powder it can go up to about 24 grains with the small chamber it is about pencil size the large chamber I've never tried. LD1


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Babydriver Junior Member Offline Posts: 77 Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2024	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #12 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 9:06pm	Print Post
	What does Biden have to do with a price increase of an item purchased 30 years ago?


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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1999 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #13 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 9:55pm	Print Post
	You might try reading my notation again.

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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1586 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: accurate 0-10gr powder measurement Reply #14 - Mar 1^st, 2025 at 10:47pm	Print Post
	RCBS Little Dandy is my small charge measure.if you want to get into 1/10g charge changes you can easily modify the rotors.


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