Fantastic, and cheers for the follow-up post. Showing it next to commonly found items, like toothpicks, really show a sense of scale, and how tiny a granule of gun-powder really is. Something I haven't thought about during the last post, is how gun-powder looks. Admittedly, I haven't been paying much attention to the actual powder, but I do remember older firearms having a more powder-y texture, than the granules that these modern guns have.
Just an interesting thing to note, I guess. I don't suppose these granules of gun-powder are just as fragile? So, to get 43.4 grains for Creedmoor rounds, could one just toss-in, say 40 or so grains, and then just use tweezers for the rest, or do you have to carefully use tweezers for all of them? I can't imagine the concentration and patience it takes to get this right, I know I surely don't 😅.
Thanks mate, it was a fun little post to write and to get those images...Was surprising to me how liitle powder makes up 1 grain to be honest.
So, I have a powder thrower that I set up to throw the charge into that little gold holder thing. It goes onto the beam scales and then I use a trickler to trickle in additional powder. The tweezers come into play if I have to remove granules or add one or two at a time. I'll do a post about it sometime. I have some photos somewhere.
Quite an intricate process, then. I'd love to see a Part 2 (or technically 3, after the cartridge comparison ) :-)
I could do that. If you scroll you'll see a comment I made here with for points on the process...Just a basic list. It will give you an idea. But yes, I can do a follow up showing all the bits for sure.
Yeah, took me a while to wrap my head around some of the terminology, and how it goes together. Great explanation, but it's only marred by my slow, lazy brain...