My scales are warmed up for well over 30 days waiting for powder. I am going to need to clean the dust off with some leftover COVID bleach wipes when the powder gets here? 😃
On another channel they did the trickle test on the pocket scale and it was accurate from 0 to 50 with slow trickle the first 5-10 grains. Compared to a 300 usd professional scale with 0.02 accuracy it was spot on always.
@@jmkhenka I was not aware of that. I just checked it to make sure it would react to trickling and put it in the box for when I start loading again next winter. I will have to check that out.
This scale is the one that finally broke me. My hornady G2 died Christmas eve, I had the week off after Christmas and planned to do a lot of shooting. Not wanting to wait a week I went to Cabela's and picked up the G3. Batteries in and it wasn't working! This would of been my third e-scale and I returned it and got a RCBS mechanical scale. It's the best thing I ever did. You do not save any time with electronic scales with all the messing around with them. Also, once you are set and want to random check during your loading it's actually faster, because you don't need to turn it on or zero the thing. Just dump it in the pan and watch the beam. No warming up, no calibration, no drift. I will never bother with e-scale again!
I got one of the Hornady G3 1500 Electronic scales. It does a very good job at coming of of zero when trickling in fine increments, and seems to hold its zero better than most other pocket scales. I also use the Lyman Brass Smith Powder Trickler, and between it and the Hornady G3 1500 Electronic Scale, weighing out powder charges is now quick and easy.
Box of 50 reloads fell out of cabinet landed on my RCBS, no worky no mo. Thanks for review. Oh, by the way. If it has a balance beam its a scale, if it is electronic it is a balance.
that A&D scale is an amazing piece of kit, i dont really care about the other scales now. need a new one after my RCBS was doing alot of drift even when full warmed up for more than an hour. i got tired of pulling apart cartridges.
I did see a trickle test on another site and the pocket scale performed excellently. Also you can set the auto sleep timer to off so the unit stays on until you turn it off (to warm it up for how ever long you want)
I've got the smaller one and a quick tip is use the carat or the gram read out as they read to thousands the third value reads as 0 or 5 but it is just a bit of a finer reading than the grain display gives.
How do the two Hornady scales do when adding powder a physical grain at a time with a trickler? Load cell scales usually suffer from some degree of shear lag in the strain gages (bonding adhesive actually), so don't respond, or respond slowly to very small increments of mass addition. Your A&D is a MFR balance I think, so should be almost no response lag. It would be useful since at least some users will use these for trickling powder charges for rifle ammo, and that lag or non-responsiveness can be an issue. Assessing time drift in zero shift and calibration shift is also useful information.
Beside all the poor timing remarks. I appreciate the knowledge. Yep, invested in my equipment and investing in my reloading equipment and knowledge gathering. Yes, still missing Primers but have gone to shows around the state and found the rest. I won't be kept from my goals because it's hard today. Thanks for your time. Keep searching and keep educated continually. Tomorrow you'll know better.
I would like to see this test done with a second, different powder in a very small amount - say, something fast-burning in the single digits of grains, in a cartridge where a few tenths can be the difference between maximum charge and serious overload. And I'd like to see that maximum charge trickled up to repeatably in 0.1 grain increments, stopping at every 0.1 grain and not skipping any digits like my Frankford Arsenal pocket scale sometimes does.
I recently got one of these M2 Digital Bench Scales. I had trouble trying to caibrate it as it wouldn't go past the 10gram weight. The scale didn't want to settle down at all. I got in touch with the retailer about it and am now just waiting for them to tell me what their supplier will say about it. A poor start to what appeared to be a promising digital scales.
So I take it both of these scales don’t turn off like most do after 5 sec lol it’s always frustrating when they turn off every time you turn around . Appreciate your videos and knowledge
Hi Gavin, you should wear gloves if you touch the weights, otherwise you attach weight every time you touch them with your hands. Or you clean the weights with alcohol.Nice new studio 😀
Hallo everybody! I am from Germany. I need a help. I will start with the reloading and i want to buy a hornady lock and load progressive press. I want to reload 45 acp ( 1000 -2000 a year) , 357 mag ( 1000-2000 a year) and 308 win ( 1000 a year). I don't want to spate a lot of time for reloading and make every step with the single stage press but i still want to make a good ammo. What do you think about this press? Thank you very much for every answer.
I have a Hornady. It is a very good press. If you want to get extra precise on powder charge for 308, You can drop a powder funnel in one of the die holes, and the case will hold the funnel at the top of the ram stroke. Then weigh powder and charge case though the funnel. As you brig the ram back down, the funnel is then held by the press. You then move to seating bullet etc.
@chris mclaughlin I want to buy it in any shop. Its not a big problem in Germany. There is a possibility to buy it online for example. www.frankonia.de/schiesssport/wiederladen/pulver/Artikel.html www.arms24.com/nc-pulver?p=1 or hier.
I just have to trough my 2 cents in. I think a Dillon 550 would be a much better option. I have been loading on a Dillon 650 for well over 25 years and the press is still amazing. The 650 has been retired and the new 750 born the differences are mainly in the priming system. It might be worth looking at. I know Gavin has reviewd a couple very high end presses form Germany recently. They seam to be incredible machines.
How are you warming up the G3-1500 for 30 mins? I have the G3 also and it shuts off after about 5 min of inactivity. How do I disable it? Cause right now I let it shut off and repeat this cycle a couple time before using.
@@vdubbervr6 and others, i've purchased over 20 lbs of powder last month, mostly from Powder Valley. A guy I work with has purchased over 30 lbs from Powder Valley alone in the last month. You can even buy direct from Hodgdon. You do have to watch several times a day because PV makes drops on their site at odd times of the day. I've never not been able to get what I needed when I wanted it.
@@jgt4862 Missouri, a few local mom and pop shops have gotten powder and primers as well as midway USA if you can catch it. Which I am local to midway and can do curbside pickup.
Wouldn`t mind having some powder and bullets to measure. So there is no point in buying their scales, we need ammo and loading components! Being that most all of hornady`s reloading products are made in china, where is all this ammo they keep bragging about that they are producing.
My scales are warmed up for well over 30 days waiting for powder. I am going to need to clean the dust off with some leftover COVID bleach wipes when the powder gets here? 😃
I'd like to see a trickle test and how good they are at weighing powder that has slowly been added
Ditto on the trickle test😁
On another channel they did the trickle test on the pocket scale and it was accurate from 0 to 50 with slow trickle the first 5-10 grains. Compared to a 300 usd professional scale with 0.02 accuracy it was spot on always.
The pocket scale reacts very well to trickling. It does have an auto shut off which I do not care too much for.
@@Glock2201 it can be turned off in the g3, 0 (off) to 180sec. It's the must have for me.
@@jmkhenka I was not aware of that. I just checked it to make sure it would react to trickling and put it in the box for when I start loading again next winter. I will have to check that out.
Great to see an item tested that the working man can afford !!
I'll bet that pocket scale will be great for the street medicine market... nothing like product accuracy in a pocket sized scale.
They prefer to be called undocumented pharmacists
This scale is the one that finally broke me. My hornady G2 died Christmas eve, I had the week off after Christmas and planned to do a lot of shooting. Not wanting to wait a week I went to Cabela's and picked up the G3. Batteries in and it wasn't working! This would of been my third e-scale and I returned it and got a RCBS mechanical scale. It's the best thing I ever did. You do not save any time with electronic scales with all the messing around with them. Also, once you are set and want to random check during your loading it's actually faster, because you don't need to turn it on or zero the thing. Just dump it in the pan and watch the beam. No warming up, no calibration, no drift. I will never bother with e-scale again!
I got one of the Hornady G3 1500 Electronic scales. It does a very good job at coming of of zero when trickling in fine increments, and seems to hold its zero better than most other pocket scales. I also use the Lyman Brass Smith Powder Trickler, and between it and the Hornady G3 1500 Electronic Scale, weighing out powder charges is now quick and easy.
Box of 50 reloads fell out of cabinet landed on my RCBS, no worky no mo. Thanks for review. Oh, by the way. If it has a balance beam its a scale, if it is electronic it is a balance.
that A&D scale is an amazing piece of kit, i dont really care about the other scales now. need a new one after my RCBS was doing alot of drift even when full warmed up for more than an hour. i got tired of pulling apart cartridges.
I did see a trickle test on another site and the pocket scale performed excellently. Also you can set the auto sleep timer to off so the unit stays on until you turn it off (to warm it up for how ever long you want)
I've got the smaller one and a quick tip is use the carat or the gram read out as they read to thousands the third value reads as 0 or 5 but it is just a bit of a finer reading than the grain display gives.
How do the two Hornady scales do when adding powder a physical grain at a time with a trickler? Load cell scales usually suffer from some degree of shear lag in the strain gages (bonding adhesive actually), so don't respond, or respond slowly to very small increments of mass addition. Your A&D is a MFR balance I think, so should be almost no response lag. It would be useful since at least some users will use these for trickling powder charges for rifle ammo, and that lag or non-responsiveness can be an issue. Assessing time drift in zero shift and calibration shift is also useful information.
Beside all the poor timing remarks. I appreciate the knowledge. Yep, invested in my equipment and investing in my reloading equipment and knowledge gathering. Yes, still missing Primers but have gone to shows around the state and found the rest. I won't be kept from my goals because it's hard today. Thanks for your time. Keep searching and keep educated continually. Tomorrow you'll know better.
Thanks Gavin 👊
Great rundown!!
Have you done a review and accuracy test for the RCBS pocket scale? Love the content.
Those are nice. Think Ill be picking up a G2 in the near future.
Thanks, last product I need to get started on my reloading adventures.
You picked a pretty poor time to get started
No kidding.
G3-1500 has been stable for me.
But did they fix the delay and not adding weight when Trikle for exact weight
I would like to see this test done with a second, different powder in a very small amount - say, something fast-burning in the single digits of grains, in a cartridge where a few tenths can be the difference between maximum charge and serious overload. And I'd like to see that maximum charge trickled up to repeatably in 0.1 grain increments, stopping at every 0.1 grain and not skipping any digits like my Frankford Arsenal pocket scale sometimes does.
Great video Gavin!! When will you Ultimate Reloader T shirts in Large back in stock??
Andre, working on getting the new inventory go live today! Stay tuned!
I recently got one of these M2 Digital Bench Scales. I had trouble trying to caibrate it as it wouldn't go past the 10gram weight. The scale didn't want to settle down at all. I got in touch with the retailer about it and am now just waiting for them to tell me what their supplier will say about it. A poor start to what appeared to be a promising digital scales.
Free stuff?? I'll bet Gavin loves them!!!
Thank you again
Can I ask what is the maximum weight in grams that it can weigh? thanks.
So what's the point of one costing 4x the amount? For the same accuracy?
So I take it both of these scales don’t turn off like most do after 5 sec lol it’s always frustrating when they turn off every time you turn around . Appreciate your videos and knowledge
The M2 stays on if you leave it on. The G3-1500 has configurable "auto-off" timing...
@@Ultimatereloader Thanks for the info
How accurate are calibration weights? Is the weight of 10g calibration weight really 10g...
Hi Gavin, you should wear gloves if you touch the weights, otherwise you attach weight every time you touch them with your hands. Or you clean the weights with alcohol.Nice new studio 😀
I like the screen on those much better than lyman
How did you get the G3-1500 to warm up for 30 minutes?
Hallo everybody! I am from Germany. I need a help. I will start with the reloading and i want to buy a hornady lock and load progressive press. I want to reload 45 acp ( 1000 -2000 a year) , 357 mag ( 1000-2000 a year) and 308 win ( 1000 a year). I don't want to spate a lot of time for reloading and make every step with the single stage press but i still want to make a good ammo. What do you think about this press?
Thank you very much for every answer.
I have a Hornady. It is a very good press. If you want to get extra precise on powder charge for 308, You can drop a powder funnel in one of the die holes, and the case will hold the funnel at the top of the ram stroke. Then weigh powder and charge case though the funnel. As you brig the ram back down, the funnel is then held by the press. You then move to seating bullet etc.
@@stevegee218
Thank you very much. Its a realy good idea!!👍
@chris mclaughlin
I want to buy it in any shop. Its not a big problem in Germany. There is a possibility to buy it online for example.
www.frankonia.de/schiesssport/wiederladen/pulver/Artikel.html
www.arms24.com/nc-pulver?p=1
or hier.
I just have to trough my 2 cents in. I think a Dillon 550 would be a much better option. I have been loading on a Dillon 650 for well over 25 years and the press is still amazing. The 650 has been retired and the new 750 born the differences are mainly in the priming system. It might be worth looking at. I know Gavin has reviewd a couple very high end presses form Germany recently. They seam to be incredible machines.
What is the best case trimmer for a 45/70 govt?
I just got the g3 scale,,sadly the brand new batteries I bought died during the warmup,,thank you China,,,
How are you warming up the G3-1500 for 30 mins? I have the G3 also and it shuts off after about 5 min of inactivity. How do I disable it? Cause right now I let it shut off and repeat this cycle a couple time before using.
Looking for this. It mentions an adjustment in the manual to shut off auto off, but it doesn't show you how to actually do it!🙄
There is no reason to buy a new scale when you cant get powder
If you are in California, I know where to get powders at normal prices.
@@vdubbervr6 and others, i've purchased over 20 lbs of powder last month, mostly from Powder Valley. A guy I work with has purchased over 30 lbs from Powder Valley alone in the last month. You can even buy direct from Hodgdon. You do have to watch several times a day because PV makes drops on their site at odd times of the day. I've never not been able to get what I needed when I wanted it.
Great. Scales. Still no powder.
Yes there is. Stores are getting powder.
@@chevyon37s Not where I live. Where are you and what stores?
@@jgt4862 Missouri, a few local mom and pop shops have gotten powder and primers as well as midway USA if you can catch it. Which I am local to midway and can do curbside pickup.
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MOST IMPORTAINT! YOU CAN TURN OFF/DISABLE THE AUTO-OFF ON THE POCKET SCALE!!!!
Also its much more accurate.
Wouldn`t mind having some powder and bullets to measure. So there is no point in buying their scales, we need ammo and loading components!
Being that most all of hornady`s reloading products are made in china, where is all this ammo they keep bragging about that they are producing.
GET A BEAM SCALE DONT WAST YOUR TIME