Dillon Powder Measure Tips

[Hoser]

And with carbide dies for rifle, you still have to use lube.

I like Hornady One-Shot for progressive and Imperial for single stage.

[stubbicatt]

Thanks Hoser!~

Do you recommend that powder baffle sold by the kind folks at Uniquetec? Dude on the phone told me that it will really help with uniformity of powder charges, something that the standard Dillon fails to do, he says.

Regards.

[CHA-LEE]

I have loaded almost 10,000 rounds through my Dillion 650 and the powder measure does not vary more than 0.1 grain. For example I currently have it setup to drop 4.6 grains and when it varies off of that it will do a 4.5 drop once in a while but not very often. Never a 4.4 or 4.7 drop. To me this seems pretty accurate, is it not?

[Hoser]

Do you recommend that powder baffle sold by the kind folks at Uniquetec? Dude on the phone told me that it will really help with uniformity of powder charges, something that the standard Dillon fails to do, he says.

The Dillon measure already has one built in...

[Hoser]

I have loaded almost 10,000 rounds through my Dillion 650 and the powder measure does not vary more than 0.1 grain. For example I currently have it setup to drop 4.6 grains and when it varies off of that it will do a 4.5 drop once in a while but not very often. Never a 4.4 or 4.7 drop. To me this seems pretty accurate, is it not?

Try loading rifle powders like Varget or H4350. Thats where the variations go all over the map.

Depending on what pistol powder you use it can also be a little quirky.

This is one of those "cant hurt, might help" things where most pistol powders are concerned.

[CHA-LEE]

I am using the standard Clays powder on my setup and have not tried anything else yet. I can see how the powder drop could be inconsistent if the powder granules were super fine or irregular shapes. The Clays powder seems to be pretty consistent in size and shape. Maybe that it the main reason why it runs consistent in my system?

[Great-Kazoo]

I can post some pics later, unless Hoser has time before i do. I polish the entire bar and related components.

[Hoser]

Hoser, I have read your post on several forums.
I did this to some of my powder measures in the past.

Do you have any pictures of the process and exactly how the bars look after you polish? It would be easier if I could see where you polished. I have been having trouble with my powder measure, unique and getting 3.1 grains consistantly.

I don't have pics anymore. They were hosted on the really old version of this sites servers and I can't find my originals anywhere.

Just lay some 320 or 440 on a marble slab or a chunk of glass that is flat.

Add some oil and use light pressure to take off the high spots. Once they are pretty much gone polish with a scotch brite pad.

De-grease and put back in the measure.

[RANGERRON72]

I finally gave up with the Dillon powder measure for Varget and bought the adapter and mounted a BR-3 Match powder measure on that station and throw by hand.......Still I check carefully. While Varget has temperature stability, H335 really meters well and I use it for my practice ammo, save the Varget for XTC Matches........... May give some of the above input a try and see if it can work........

[Robb]

Kinda red-neck but hey... when my kids were little they had fish tanks, which are now sitting in the basement unused. I read where someone suggested rubber banding the bubbler to the powder hopper to give it a giggle and help against bridging. Yeah, I tried that. The humming can be a bit annoying but I believe combined with everything else mentioned, including the grounding, it does help especially with Varget.