Re: digital scales
Any of the RCBS or Redding beam scales will do you a fine job. All reloading scales are accurate within .1 gr. so there is no accuracy advantage, per se, with either IF they are working right.
I know some people are happy with their digitals and I'm happy for them. But, on average, I doubt many are finding them to be any better than yours! Digitals have a reputation for changing zeros, drifting calibration and they often fail to follow a trickler as well as any beam scale will. I don't need that. All it would need is to be off, just once, with a high pressure load and KABOOM!
The oft repeated claim digitals are "faster" puzzles me. Given the time they need to warm up enough to stabalise, then zero and calibrate them, maybe a couple of times, and then it MAY give a reading a full two seconds faster than my old 1010? For that I am to pay all that extra money? Not me! And my beam is always ready to go, instantly, and never changes. At all.
Mine sits on its dedicated shelf, at nose level for easy reading, and never needs to be zeroed. After more than 45 years of use, I do still check it's zero and accuracy occasionally, about once a year, by setting the poises at 260.9 gr and setting the original check weight in the pan. It always reads dead on, in a couple of seconds, just as it did the day I first pulled it out of its box. So I then put the cal. weight away for another year! Love it.
NO digital will ever match that for accuracy, dependabiity or long life so I just don't think I need one of them new fangled "modern" devices. I prefer GOOD tools to any "NEW AND IMPROVED" GIMMICK!
