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**44 AMP** · April 28, 2024, 03:49 PM

A good balance beam scale, graduated in grains usually reads down to .1gr, which means your accuracy is essentially .05gr rounding up or down to the nearest .1gr.

Consider this, 7000 gr in a pound, so .1gr is 1/70,000 of a pound. Nice to have that degree of precision in measuring, but what percentage of firearms are actually going to have a measurable difference in anything related to velocity or accuracy from such a small difference??

As one of my friends puts it, "if it doesn't help me put elk in my freezer with my Savage 99 .300, its not worth bothering with."

Put another way, the tips, tricks, and attention to minute details a handloader can do, only have value if the guns you're shooting benefit from them, and that is something as individual as each individual gun, and shooter and desired purpose.

April 28, 2024, 03:49 PM	#6
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 29,029	A good balance beam scale, graduated in grains usually reads down to .1gr, which means your accuracy is essentially .05gr rounding up or down to the nearest .1gr. Consider this, 7000 gr in a pound, so .1gr is 1/70,000 of a pound. Nice to have that degree of precision in measuring, but what percentage of firearms are actually going to have a measurable difference in anything related to velocity or accuracy from such a small difference?? As one of my friends puts it, "if it doesn't help me put elk in my freezer with my Savage 99 .300, its not worth bothering with." Put another way, the tips, tricks, and attention to minute details a handloader can do, only have value if the guns you're shooting benefit from them, and that is something as individual as each individual gun, and shooter and desired purpose. __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.