Wondering if anyone has one of these units? I have been considering upgrading from my scale and trickle measure and was wondering what the feeling was about this digital combo unit.

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James Redfield
LM #497

I have had mine for about a year now and am very pleased with it.

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too TOO young!!

I have one of the originals that I bought about 15 years ago. I recently had it updated for faster dispensing. Mine is very accurate with all powders. The only thing wrong with them is the price!
Dick

I bought one about five years ago and loved it for rifle loads. Then a few months ago I was using it and it quit like I had turned it off. I called Oreville and they said I could send it with $45.00 and I would either get a new one or mine back working. In either case I had a one year warrenty. So I did and in a few days a brand new one showed up.

It is very accurate, and if you put the powder try back on the scale as soon as you dump the powder it will be finished with the next load when you're ready.

I still use a manual powder measure for pistol powder that meters well. I don't weigh every round, one in ten, on my balance beam scale.

Thanks, I guess that I will make the plunge. The best price that I can find is around $280 at Natchez. Anyone heard of anything better??

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James Redfield
LM #497

I bought mine thru Natchez about five years ago. I have had no problems with the Combo. Natchez had the best price then, too.

Mine quit again (second time) and I sent it to Pact for repairs. Got it back yesterday and it still doesn't work! Called RCBS and they offered to sell me a new replacement for only $291.00! Ha!
Dick

I love mine. Had it for years. Esp. like it when working up loads, small number of cases 5 to 10 and various amounts of powder. Makes testing a shear joy.

~5 years and works great. Mostly use it for rifle and weigh every load plus for pistol as I usually do only 50 or so at a time.

I have the Lyman 1200 DPS III. It is the bomb. I use it in the place of a powder measure and trickler. I use it mostly for rifle, but also for handgun ammo where I'm loading hefty charges and want the charge to be exact.

I've had one for a year, first used it yesterday.

I'm working with some different powder loads, small batches.

It seems to be OK, I'm verifying it against a Brian Enos electronic scale. It's right on with both weighs.

It's measuring the next charge while I finish the previous round.

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NRA Pistol/Rifle Inst. RSO

I got an RCBS Chargemaster combo recently. The first one wouldn't hold zero and I had to send it back to Brownells. Kudos to them because they paid shipping both ways.

Static electricity can wreck havoc with an electronic scale. It has to be level and on a perfectly stable platform, but so does a balance beam ideally.

As with any scale, you need a set of check weights to verify its accuracy.

I'm still getting used to the digital display. Analog is more my style. What you have to remember is that it's binary. IOW it can show either 5.2 grains or 5.3 grains. No graduations in between. And RCBS only guarantees accuracy of +/- one tenth of a grain.

All that said, the dispenser works nicely. With Win-231, it drops charges well within +/- 1/10th grain of the target weight (verified on a 5-0-5). More like +/- 1/20th for me.

Nice for working up ladders, but I wouldn't pay the price unless I were loading for rifles. My Hornady powder measure with the pistol micrometer insert is just as accurate.

One last note. You need to insert a very short piece of McDonalds straw into the dispensing tube, at least with W-231. Otherwise powder can keep dropping after the charge weight is stabilized. Believe it or not, the RCBS tech I talked to made a point of telling me about this trick.