PART 1 THE RELOADERS CREED KEEP IT CONCENTRIC. KEEP IT CONSISTENT.
It’s time to go 100% Alice in Wonderland on this new-found obsession and dive down the rabbit hole!
What pill should you take and what should you pass on? What tools/ techniques and skills are ‘must haves’ and ‘must dos’, and what can be kept in the bottom drawer?
First and foremost, let's look at the ‘two Cs’, which above everything else will get you the best results – consistency and concentricity.
CONSISTENCY
Consistency should be achieved at every stage of the reloading process, starting with component and tooling selection. Let's begin with what you have direct control over and will contribute significant impactful benefits.
Quality measuring tools are absolutely essential and will not only massively improve your existing results, but also stop you chasing your tail, by eliminating inaccuracies at critical stages of the reloading process.
SCALES
A reliable scale that is calibrated and proven to read to 1/10gn accuracy is high on this list.
Like many guys and girls starting their reloading journeys, I got what gear I could to get started, all the while working to strict budget constraints.
This included a set of Smart Reloader battery-powered digital scales…as I write this it makes me want to give myself an uppercut for letting them within a mile of my bench. They were horrendous! They required constant recalibration and the drift on them made them basically unusable.
Next was a set of Frankford Arsenal DS750 battery scales. This unit served me well for what it did, but its use was limited. It didn’t like to trickle charges, it was sensitive to battery charge and again, it was prone to drifting. Stepping up to an RCBS Range Master 2000
