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Is the Lyman DPS 3 reloading scale accurate and consistent in throwing the exact charge weight every time?
How accurate is it? can it throw the exact same charge weight every single time? Is there any tips or advise in using it? Is every charge weight within .3 of a grain of each other?
Brady, the simple answer to your question is no. Any powder dispenser you use is going to have some deviation in the total weight that you discharge from it. I currently own and have owned several very nice and some quite expensive powder dispensers and scales. One of the first I ever owned was by RCBS, I found that the dispenser would give me a fairly consistent powder drop when I filled the dispensers container, when it would get to 50% in the column I would see weights be light. The powder wouldn't be as compressed and would make a slight change to the total weight. Also powders with long grains can be off weight as they dispense, sometimes you'll feel some resistance when you actuate the handle and you have to give it a little extra help. This is actually cutting some of the extruded grains and this will affect the total dispensed weight. For most re-loaders this isn't a big deal, but for 100% equal loads each time you need to weigh each charge and use a powder trickler to equal the charge. .3 grain in my plinker rounds for pistol practice isn't bad, and for rounds like 7.63x39 I use for playing around its not a big thing either. However I do a lot of bench rest shooting and compete in 1000 yard shoots. Each round is exact, each powder charge is hand checked, each bullet weighed, and each complete round rolled on a block and miked for high points and marked to load in the chamber a certain way.
To answer your question, powder weight, design, compactness, humidity, scale deviation, hand pressure, handle speed of the drop, and columm level in the dispensor will all affect your total powder charge weight.
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