I use a RCBS Chargemaster for my rifle loads. Think the Little Dandy would be faster. Does anybody use them and are they accurate as well as fast and simple?

For handgun loads, sorry.

The Little Dandy works fine. It has the good points of being very durable and the fixed rotors can never get out of adjustment as each rotor drops a fixed amount of powder. It will also work in close quarters so to speak like the turret heads of some of the turret press like the Redding and Lyman. The Little Dandy has a lot to recomend it and one downside that may kill it for some users.

The downside is if you need a whole bunch of the rotors you will wind up with a very pricey powder measure set up. But if you only need a few different charges it is fine. I have been able to accumulate all of the rotors one or two at a time from "dig" boxes at gun shows and gun shops and have some extras I could share with a good man in need.

Thanks NKJ nut, good point, never thought about the rotors. Let me do some research on what I'm looking for and I may take you up on your offer.
Thanks!!!!!

I only reload for handgun. I would guess 95% of my reloading is with the Little Dandy. Excellent piece of equipment.

For what it is intended it is "Dandy". With the exception of the .22 Hornet, .218 Bee, .25-20 and .32-20 this does not include loading rifle cartridges however. It also only includes typical handgun/shotgun powders and not most extruded type rifle propellants.

If loading something like .222, .223, or other small calibers with ball/spherical propellant types, and your chosen load can be reached by dropping two charges from the Little Dandy it works well there too.

NKJ makes a good point about the rotors, but if you load many calibers and bullet weights, and can use a load that a rotor is available for it is well worth the price for not haveing to adjust a conventional measure possibly several times in a loading session, just select a defferent rotor from your set and change it, no adjusting.

The Little Dandy will show you one thing, and that is how much powder charges can vary, even using the same can of powder in a fixed measure. A load can change several tenths of a grain between the time a new can of powder is opened and the time it is used up. The difference is all in solvent and/or moisture content of the powder at different times anice the measure volume remains unchanged. Since the powder energy is dependant on the weight of the solids, and not he volatile elements of the propellant you will also find that velocity remains relatively constant, even though charge weigh may go down by 2-3/10 gr. over time.

If a rotor does not quite throw as heavy a charge as you want it is simple to deepen the cavity with a 5/16" or 3/8" drill depending on cavity size until the desired weight is thrown. Just record in your table the actual weight that rotor throws as modified. Be aware that the RCBS rotor table will never be completely accurate as to charge weights, as usually rotors will throw significantly lighter than the table indicates. You will need to create your own table by weighing charges of each powder you will use if you wish to have an accurate listing of actual weights your rotors throw. FWIW, rotors will not throw even vaguely consistant changes of Unique in any rotor smaller than #12 (smallest with 3/8" cavity) even though RCBS shows Unique with smaller rotors.