I was at my brother's the other day and admired his powder measure. He generously offered its loan.

Worth the price or not... I dunno, it sure is pretty and a real pleasure to use. He hasn't been shooting much lately, maybe it will be a good while before he recalls it.

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I would jump at the chance to one of those measures. It's the best on the market! Not much can surpass its accuracy throwing charges. If you go to benchrest shoot thats all you will see being used. And most of the benchrest books refer to it as the one to use. Go for it!! It's worth the money, quality always is. TF

I just received a Harrell measure for Christmas. It is a quality piece of equipment and I'm glad I have it.

I do not find it to be any more accurate and consistant in throwing charges than my Redding measure but it is certainly nicer to use with the bearings and click adjustment.

The Harrell is a wonderful powder measure that hardly anybody really needs.

It will surprise you to know that it makes almost no difference at all to weigh or measure each powder charge down to the last kernel of powder. In fact, your charge weight can vary by 1% in any gun (and as much as 2% in most guns) and not make a statistically valid difference in performance.

In a rifle using a 50.0 charge, that means that a variation charge-to-charge of a half grain (1% of fifty) makes little if any difference in velocity or trajectory. The reloaders who squint at a scale and drop powders kernels by hand until they are within one half of one tenth of a grain may be pleasing themselves about their level of precision, but they are fooling themselves that it matters.

You may argue with that, but if you TEST it with enough sample shots, you'll be forced to agree.

I agree 100% Rocky. To me comparing the Harrell with other quality measures is simply a Cadillac versus Chevrolet argument.

One thing about the Harrell that probably attracts the bench rest crowd is that I believe it would be easy enough to work up your most accurate load never weighing a charge and then be able to repeat that charge without ever even knowing what the weight was.

Yup. Here's another claim that some will fault: an average measure operated well is more accurate than a premium measure operated poorly.

The guy who can work the handle of a standard measure (RCBS, Hornady, Lyman) smoothly and EXACTLY the same way every time will throw charges that weigh much closer to the same than the guy with a Harrells but who bangs the handle one time, slides it the next, goes fast, then slow.