anyone manual trickle with a chargemaster?

[Winny94]

Setting up a ladder test, I decided to chargemaster throw .2 under and manually trickle the rest. I was surprised how often the next tenth came with one kernal and the next throw it was 2-5 kernals. Got me wondering if that may explain some of my other inconsistent ladder tests in the past.
The manual trickle function on the chargemaster wasn't as sensitive as I'd like so I ended up just tapping the feed tube to trickle . May need to invest in a true manual trickle.

Anyone else do the same?

 

[tunaman]

Are you using the straw mod?

 

[Alabusa]

Not using a CM but another electronic scale and always throw shy and trickle. Has cut my es and sd in half. The extra time is worth it.

 

[ssteve]

I’m on a Lyman gen6 and I always throw .2 shy of my target charge weight and then trickle in until one kernel pushes me to my target weight. Seems to help out the cheap scales that are with these auto throwers.

 

[Winny94]

Are you using the straw mod?

I used to, but graduated to the MK machine insert - definitely worth the $10 or $15

 

[MtnCreek]

I set chargemaster to throw low and trickle up on a beam. Chargemaster seemed inconsistant when trickling up with the pan on the scale.

 

[Bandit320]

I set chargemaster to throw low and trickle up on a beam. Chargemaster seemed inconsistant when trickling up with the pan on the scale.

I also use this procedure.

Mike

 

[Rerun7]

OP - I do the same thing when I’m wanting to do tests or shoot groups.

If I’m just shooting steel I let it do it’s thing.

 

[Ryridesmotox]

I set chargemaster to throw low and trickle up on a beam. Chargemaster seemed inconsistant when trickling up with the pan on the scale.

What's the point of the chargemaster then? That seems like a lot of work. Do you fever regret getting it?

 

[Rerun7]

It’s still way faster. The charge master is throwing 98% of the charge while you trickle the one before it on a beam scale. It goes pretty fast.

I’ve also done some testing of downrange differences when not doing it this way and just letting the chargemaster run. There isn’t a big change so unless you are shooting for groups or load testing the chargemaster works fine.