If interested in purchasing the new RCBS MatchMaster Powder dispenser - release coming in November - Midway is now taking back orders. Here’s the link... https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1021886082?pid=587648
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Didnt there old 1500 Sell for around $300ish? Quite the jump in price for adding in a 2nd Drop pipe
lol I love all the trinkets....but I’ll be sitting this one out.
The old chargemaster has been good enough for me to cause my Prometheus to gather dust.
The old chargemaster has been good enough for me to cause my Prometheus to gather dust.
Why not get an auto-trickler v3 for this price range.
for me it would be less speed and more accurate throws. running 2 and seating as you go. overthrows are annoying
Well, I enjoyed reading the bluetooth app can control up to 8x units simultaneously.
That ought to be fairly fast for match prep ( as well as emptying your wallet)
That ought to be fairly fast for match prep ( as well as emptying your wallet)
Value is very subjective. Personally I get a bit carried away when products come out that are faster and more accurate. If the new powder drop can deliver accuracy of 0.04 grains, that's impressive at that MSRP. If you want more accuracy you'll have to consider a scale like the Sartorius GD 503.
However, to get the best accuracy are you going to be hand sorting your brass by weight, annealing it after each use, grouping your selected bullets by weight, blue printing primer pockets and checking the neck ID and OD of your brass, prepping cases and bullet tips etc.
Then how do you test the precision of your load? Without an accurate chrongraph (Doppler radar) how can you confirm the standard deviation of your muzzle velocity before taking into consideration all the other factors discussed in the many books by Bryan Litz of Applied Ballistics. In the end for many of us, we have to accept precision shooting can be what seems like an endless money pit. We haven't even talked about the best of the binocular laser rangefinds that have bluetooth capability to send data to your Kestrel 5700 Elite meter. If you can't know the distance to target accurately as well as the environmental variables, then you probably don't need a super expensive powder measure.
I have a small collection of custom built guns that have become dated, so I've justed ordered a ranch gas gun in a .224 Valkyrie, 20 inch Bartlein heavy barrel, JP enhanced bolt, Trigger Tech Diamond 2 stage trigger, Magpul stock and grip, TBAC muzzle brake, LSA Ion handguard all Cerakoted, a Spuhr SP-4616 mount, Nightforce ATACR 5-25 F1 optic and Atlas BT46-LW17 PSR bipod. While a gas gun is not a true PRS rifle, they are fun to shoot.
However, to get the best accuracy are you going to be hand sorting your brass by weight, annealing it after each use, grouping your selected bullets by weight, blue printing primer pockets and checking the neck ID and OD of your brass, prepping cases and bullet tips etc.
Then how do you test the precision of your load? Without an accurate chrongraph (Doppler radar) how can you confirm the standard deviation of your muzzle velocity before taking into consideration all the other factors discussed in the many books by Bryan Litz of Applied Ballistics. In the end for many of us, we have to accept precision shooting can be what seems like an endless money pit. We haven't even talked about the best of the binocular laser rangefinds that have bluetooth capability to send data to your Kestrel 5700 Elite meter. If you can't know the distance to target accurately as well as the environmental variables, then you probably don't need a super expensive powder measure.
I have a small collection of custom built guns that have become dated, so I've justed ordered a ranch gas gun in a .224 Valkyrie, 20 inch Bartlein heavy barrel, JP enhanced bolt, Trigger Tech Diamond 2 stage trigger, Magpul stock and grip, TBAC muzzle brake, LSA Ion handguard all Cerakoted, a Spuhr SP-4616 mount, Nightforce ATACR 5-25 F1 optic and Atlas BT46-LW17 PSR bipod. While a gas gun is not a true PRS rifle, they are fun to shoot.
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One, please split paragraphs.
Two, this thread is about powder dispensers, not the other money subpits in the money pit we find ourselves in with precision rifles.
Three, the Matchmaster only throws .04 in Match mode, only throws in 20 seconds in standard mode. This means that you will have to sacrifice either speed or precision.
The AnD fx120i with autotrickler is accurate to .02, throws in about 12 seconds and has an MSRP for $50 more. While it remains to be seen what price this will end up at with retailers, your money is still better spent on the autotrickler setup than any RCBS powder dispenser. While this is just an opinion, I am not the only one who holds it as many have had problems with Chargemasters as well as RCBS customer service.
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This is not comparable to the autotrickler setup, and it's hard to think that there will be many people in the middle with the Matchmaster rather than multiple Chargemasters on the low end, or the autotrickler on the higher end.
That's good and I hope it is successful for RCBS. But since I have two of them, I know the history of the Chargemaster. Will this work most of the time but also occasionally generate overthrows? People know what the scale/autotrickler combo will do.
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