Reloading at the Range

[BearNaked]

Does anybody do this?

My friend is letting me shoot out on their property and so instead of driving back and forth between the ranch and my reloading room to do some load testing i was thinking, first mistake, to load up my reloading equipment and take it out there with me. I am going to run the CM inside the truck to hide from the wind and keep it cool. i have a plug in my truck that will run the unit so i am good there.

Any good or bad experiences?

 

[supercorndogs]

I would be worried the instability of the pick up would mess with the charge master. Something that probably wouldn't be too hard to work around.

 

[Supersubes]

Ive done this in the past, and may start doing it again due to the amount of tinkering ive been into lately. It's very common for the benchrest crowd to do this. They use high quality and repeatable powder measures, like a harrel's. They adjust charges on the measure, the actual weight is unimportant at the time. If they need a charge weight, they simply set it up at home and weigh out their favorite measure setting. There are some that bring scales, but theyre usually protected and on a solid base. As supercorndogs noted, the vehicle wont be very stable.

I have a Harrel's measure, and it's awesome. It's the cheap one called a custom 90 if I recall. They use a detented micrometer drum for adjustments. Been using it for years. very nice product. There are several in that same class, made by other manufactures.

 

[BearNaked]

so what about running an extension cord to the CM and then to a shooting bench that i made out of wood. nothing special but will hold a rifle and an ice check with beer, deer hunting bench, so i think it should be stable enough for a couple of charges. maybe not but worth a try. i guess i can weigh it out on my reloading bench and then re weigh it in the truck to see if that has any affect at all.

 

[BearNaked]

I was planning on doing this when I do my OCW test soon.
I have a Lee hand press and I was going to bring prep'ed brass and bullets and I was going to pre-measure a variety of charge weights I might want to test and store the powder in these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019Z87JWY/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

label them with tape and a marker.

That way I can try additional charges to fill in my data at interesting nodes without loading rounds I'd have to pull later. Anything I don't use can be poured back into the container.

I have the tubes but haven't done this yet. So its only theory right now if it will work well.

well now you are giving me more ideas of just doing all the measurements out there so that i dont have to pull any charges. I can load a round, fire it, then load the next, fire it, and so on. that way, like you said, you wont have to pull bullets later on.