Has anyone used one? For $40 it seems like a decent alternative to the dandy trickler, as long as it works. I’ve got one that should be coming in on Monday so I’ll have a review if anyone is interested.
Hornady Vibratory Powder Trickler
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Hmmm... that'd probably be a pretty good widget for low volume stuff like building pressure ladders...
That’s what I’m thinking. I picked up a fx-120i scale on rebate, was thinking about getting an autotrickler, but I use a Dillon for most of my loading so I figure I can do load development with this and crank out volume with the Dillon.
Why not skip the dillon powder measure, replace it with a funnel and get the auto throw and trickler? I would say that the auto throw/trickler is easily 5x faster than that hornady tricker you show in the video. You have the scale already which is half the battle
But now that I think of it the auto throw doesnt work real well with small ball pwders so maybe not for H380 in your situation. The trickler runs it fine, just not the throw.
For $40, that seems like a decent enough little gizmo for small batches or pressure ladders. The other day I spent nearly an hour loading up 10 rounds by trickling the bulk of the load by hand, then using a manual (Frankford Arsenal) trickler to get down to the .02 gr (the best that my GemPro 250 will do).
The throw and trickler combo seems a little Rube Goldberg-ey to me, another $500 on top of the $350 I paid for the scale. The Dillon throws consistently enough for most of the shooting I’m doing and if I’m trying to crank out some über precise rounds I’ll trickle each one.
Can / does this thing trickle out one kernel at a time like an omega?
Was playing with mine today. Sure does. Nice little piece of gear. Now I just need a scale sensitive enough to react to one kernel of powder ???
UPDATE. Loaded a bunch with this lil' bastard. The 2 AAA batteries are good for about 110 or so charge throws. I was using nothing but this magical machine to trickle the entire charge for my 6.5 Creed load development.
This is one of those things where I say "I really didn't know what I was missing before I got this thing" like a paid infomercial actor LOL. It's a really good piece of gear for $20 on Amazon.
This is one of those things where I say "I really didn't know what I was missing before I got this thing" like a paid infomercial actor LOL. It's a really good piece of gear for $20 on Amazon.
