Powder scale (stay with beam or upgrade)

[DenStinett]

As others have said;
Digitals are great for a chick check, but I still use my old RCBS 10-10 when it really counts

[gandog56]

Every time I have checked a digital scale charge with a beam balance, they have matched within +/- 0.1 grain.

[The_Shadow]

Have you checked with known check weights to confirm their accuracy?  While both my balance beam matches up with my digital, the digital will drift in a short period of time, therefore I only use my balance beam to weigh my powder charges to be loaded in the cartridges.

Not all digital scales are the same, mine only registers even numbered tenths and no odd numbers...

[gandog56]

My Hornady Auto Dispenser that I use with the scale includes 2 check weights. I always calibrate it before using.

[my_old_glock]

Beam scales will never give you a wrong reading if you set them correctly and nothing interferes with their movement.

High-end digital/electronic lab scales (~$250+) are reliable, but cheap ones (~$20) are not. My El-Cheapo scale starts to give false reading when the batteries get low even though the low battery meter doesn't go off. Digital/electronic scales are nice because they can be zeroed/tared easily. Weigh the empty case (with primer), set tare (zero), load with powder, and weigh again to get powder weight. You don't have to dump the powder into the pan and then back into the brass case powder hopper. That is very hard to do with a beam scale.



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[The_Shadow]

I can zero the tare weight of my digital using the scale pan from my beam scale that way I can swap directly between the two of them!