Booshway

| It's true if you use the same volume measure to pour a charge of Goex 2F vs. Goex 3F...the volume of 3F will "weigh" less. My brass measure set at 100grns throws 100grns weight of 2F...but when it full of 3F that charge only weighs 94grns. BUT.....so what. At least in my opinion, bottom line I find a particular size measure of powder that gives me what I'm looking for in a given load / given rifle / smoothbore, and settle on that...regardless of what the charge might actually "weigh"...or if 2F weighs more than 3F, etc. To me, it only matters after finding a particular measure that works, to weigh the charge so if I lose that measure and have to get / make another one, I know what to build it to and not have to waste a lot of money reinventing the wheel at a range.
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Booshway
| Why not just make your own? You can then mark it 2F or 3F yourself. Make two, or two dozen. They are very easy to make, and can be made from all kinds of natural materials, such as horn, bone, wood, river cane, or if you don't care about being pc, they can easily be made from a modern rifle cartridge.
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Graybeard

| I can make you one (or two or three) out of antler if you want me to! Seepwater
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Booshway
| Mine all look like Hanshi's, antler based.
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Booshway

| Between my wife and I, we had a pretty good collection of measures made from turkey bones and antler tips, spanning 50 to 90 grains, or so they said. One day I sat down with my reloading grain scale and a can of FFG and checked them all. Some were higher, some lower, but all within 2 to 4 grains. With a filing off of the top edge, or a little drilling and reaming inside I brought them all to even 10 grain increments. We normally use FFG, but if we decide to go to FFFG, it doesn't really matter that I calibrated them for 2F, since all the measures will still be spaced apart at fairly close to 10 grain increments. When I checked what they held in FFFG, yes there was a little more weight, due to the more densely packed grains. But if you switch from 2F to 3F, you can normally drop down 10 grains to get the same power, so they say. So my suggestion is you will most likely build up a collection of a few different measures, not because you need them, but because you can't help yourself from buying them when they jump out at you and say "buy me!" Then at some point borrow a scale and adjust them if you want them to be exactly 10 grains apart, whether in 2F or 3F.
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Greenhorn
| I make a lot of these powder measures. Here's one of my favorites, holds 60 grs. 3F and slightly more 2F but it actually makes no difference unless your looking for a certain velocity using either 2F or 3F. |
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Greenhorn
| very cool measure!! I have e few made from antler also none carved like that !
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Greenhorn
| If you want easy, this is it, (not pretty but e  asy) Take a rifle cartridge case, squeeze the neck flat, bore a hole for a thong, cut the base off,put in the amount of powder you want, mark it and cut if off, smooth up the edges, done. I usually have a xtra like this in my pouch in case I loose my nice ones, |
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| I just finished one for Patience, my new .40 which took a long bit arriving. I used a turkey wing bone, and a wooden plug. Once it was fashioned, I used rock salt in my adjustable measure set for 60. Then I poured this into the new wing bone measure, and held it up to the light. The sunlight allowed me to see exactly where the measured amount ended. I tapped the side gently to make it settle, and then marked the outside with a thin pencil line. A few minutes with a file, and I had filed away the extra portion of bone and voila, a 60 grain measure. We are required to use 60 grains for deer here in Maryland, and .40 is the smallest caliber. Next I will make a 40 grain measure for small game. You can also sometimes use a chicken leg bone with only one end cut off and fashion a very serviceable though crude looking measure as well. LD
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