Thread: Mr Lee himself using his Lee Loader

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

. i know in the old days they filled the case and then ran the leveler over the mouth and seated the projectile, worked then and must work now.

DONT DO THAT you silly old prick!!!!!!!!!!! you might get away with it if you have a really bulky powder(it would work with 7.62x39mm using 2206h) where yo ucannot fit enough into case to cause issues... but the scoop is DESIGNED TO BE USED as you discribe WITH CERTAIN POWDERS, listed on chart that should be in box...failing that let me know what scoop and powders you have and I shall look it up on the list that comes with the spoon/dipper set.
youve only got one half decent eyeball left,dont risk blowing it out or you wont be able to look at pretty gals at all anymore.

and before anyone gets all "upset onbehalf" Smokey n I are buddies so I feel ok to type that as I have,he knows what I mean.

How to use a powder scoop. This bloke has it worked out.

https://youtu.be/pp1YG-KLN8c?si=Yzaw4dS6wgsr3BT7

its a bottom bit of a case with soldered holder,really neat. you can ring your mate up and get the gem off him.

Here is the Lee dipper data.

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

its a bottom bit of a case with soldered holder,really neat. you can ring your mate up and get the gem off him.

thats not quite so bad...the way you typed it above I thought you were filling up the hornet case itself!!!!!
if you have scales,weigh a couple or 5 loads and average it out..tell us what powder it is and SHOULD be able to reverse engineer (hows that for foggy brain terminology?)the scoop size easy enough..... so scoop 5 lots into scale pan and see what it comes out with then devide by 5...

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

its a bottom bit of a case with soldered holder,really neat. you can ring your mate up and get the gem off him.

Way way back in the late 60s one of my first powder measure was an appropiately shortened 308 case with handle soldered on to it. Likewise I made a couple similar for black powder although one was made out of small diameter plastic tubing.
There was no internet back then but I certainly copied someone else's idea.

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....g-tools-98589/