Re: Prometheus Generation 2
Mudcat: "...an avg of about 7 secs per throw/charge! Thats the beauty of this device...I used to spend hours loading just one box of ammo, now I can do it in minutes."
Goodness, "hours loading just ONE box of ammo" due to weighting charges? That's very hard to understand. I need about 20 seconds to drop and trickle up a charge accurate to .1 gr with traditional fully manual tools, that's 3 rounds a minute or 180 rounds an hour! Even if I took twice as long, I'd still do nearly 100 rounds - 5 boxes - in an hour!
Considering that a normal reloading session requires examining previously tumbled cases, lubing/sizing, checking case lenght and trimming/chamfering-deburring if needed, priming, charging, seating bullets, cleaning lube, putting it in a box. And that ignores the time to get the dies in and out of the press, charging my auto hand primer tool, putting powder in the measure/trickler and returning the remainder, ditto primers takes time. Even if my powder charging was instanteanous it would't make a lot of difference in my total bench time!
Confidence in ammo is understandable. But, I think it can be demonstrated that measuring powder to +/- .0000001 grain and splitting the last kernal to make it so adds nothing to the targets. The normal tiny variations in primers, cases and bullets simply exceed the value of such precise powder charge weights.
But, we all have to pay the fiddler so we can dance to our own tune.
