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Old June 14, 2005, 03:19 PM   #12
Mike Irwin
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Location: Northern Virginia
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"Neither a scale nor a dipper is gonna catch a typo. Only thing that catches those is crosschecking or enough experience to know when something just ain't right."

I disagree, especially when it comes to the experience factor.

If you've been reloading for awhile, espeically with the same powder, you'll immediately recognize, once the powder hits the scale pan, that either the dipper or the listed charge is wrong if you're expecting 5.5 grains of a powder and you come up with 6.8.

In nearly 30 years of reloading I've seen a ****pot load of typos in loading manuals of all types.


It's interesting though, that you mention cross checking loading manual data, but seem to believe that cross checking the actual powder charge with a scale as being unnecessary.

As for W748, I never use it.
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