What can I say, I am old school. I called him and purchased one. Should ship next Thursday. I plan on buying the Target Master to compliment. I am not a high volume reloader so this setup should work well for me. I have used several beam and digital scales in the past and currently use a Chargemaster. I still have my RCBS 505 that came with the kit I bought 30 years ago. Ok I am a hoarder too. I have had no problem with any of them finding an accuracy node within published max reloading guidelines. I can’t bring myself to spend 1000 on a digital scale with throw and trickle like the FX120i. It’s on my bucket list. I am old school. What say you?
Scott Parker Lyman M5
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Scott Parker beams are legit...I’ve had one for 16yrs and can’t bring myself to sell it though I do have the fx120 and auto throw.
I will let you know when I get it. I saw the posts on the time it’s takes for him to get one out. My hope is since I bought one of his scales and didn’t ship one to him I might get it faster. I also understand people have have a hard time getting ahold of him. I called him and he responded in an hour. He has also responded to my texts extremely fast. I have my fingers crossed.
How does it compare to the fx
how does Scott’s compare to the 120fx for accuracy and repeatability?
Don’t have one to compare accuracy, and am feeling tempted to buy the whole FX120 scale/throw/trickler setup, but can say having used my Parker tuned Redding for about 3 years, they are very repeatable, insensitive to current impulses, simple as it gets and single kernel sensitive down to 8208 and AR Comp. Fast-not really, but in combination with Redding BR30 and manual trickler, not prohibitively slow. If you’re okay with a manual scale process, you can’t do a whole lot better than a Parker tuned setup.
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the dandy is an awesome addition to the SP beam...my SP beam is within 2 kernels + or - when I checked.
you’ll be happy with the SP beam especially if you add the dandy.
I just got a text from Mr. Parker and my scale shipped Friday and should arrive Tuesday. Maybe he is caught up on all his orders. So that was 9 days from order to ship. I also purchased the Dandy. I do a throw of 56.2 grains and trickle the last .2 grains. That setup is fast. I can't wait to compare the Parker scale to the Chargemaster.
My scale arrived and all I can say is wow! I have some rounds loaded up and will shoot later this week. 13 days to receive the scale outstanding service and he was in communication with me consistently. With the Dandy, this setup is great. A lot faster than the charge master.
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