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These are the techniques and equipment that I use to produce reloaded cartridges for bolt and semi-automatic rifles. Other techniques and equipment may be: better/worse, cheaper/costlier, safer/more dangerous or whatever. Read this stuff and use it or not, at your own risk!

 The oldest and simplest way of doling out powder is a dipper. Lee is the only one I know of that supplies dippers, but they are easily made out of pistol cases, just fasten a handle to one and they become a dipper.

Each of the Lee die sets I've seen has included a plastic dipper and a powder/load chart for that dipper. The dipper is just a fixed volumetric dispenser and should not be sneered at; it's very hard to screw up!

Another fixed dispenser, or measure, is the "Little Dandy", by RCBS (similar ones are made by others). These type of dispensers use replaceable cavities with powder various capacities.

Above are two "rotors" or cavities for the Little Dandy powder measure. These and the Lee dippers offer no "fine adjustment", but then they allow no "mis-adjustment" either.

Lastly, above are shown two Belding & Mull dispensers, at one time the last word in powder measures. Some say the M&M design has never been equalled.

The Belding & Mull dispensers use a variable volume chamber that is filled and then removed from under the dispenser (full of powder) and then the powder is dumped into a waiting case, via a funnel. Above are two of the B&M chambers, the one on the left is of the "micrometer" adjustment design. If you find one of these, check out the price and try to buy it, as they sell for antique value.

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