RCBS ChargeMaster Link Powder Dispenser

I bought a Lyman gen6 and it was junk. This charge master is just down right awesome, accurate, dependable, and never misses a beat. The only way to go is RCBS charge master.

Works as it should. Easy set-up. I don’t have it linked to my phone at this time, But that seems pretty intuitive to do as well. Haven’t thrown a bad charge yet in the 4-500 rounds I’ve loaded out with it. Not as fast as the Frankfort (my son has one), but it’s acceptable. There’s always other tasks to do while waiting for charge to drop…

I was conflicted about buying this. Some YouTube video reviews claim it is way less accurate (+/- .2 grains or worse) and much slower than others. Not my experience at all. I ran tests of ten charges of 24.0 and 48.0 Varget which is a small kernel “stick” powder that can be a problem in mechanical measures. Then ten charges of 25.5 gn H335 which is a fine grain ball powder. In all cases most charges were +/- .05 gr as verified on my balance beam RCBS 10-10 scale (basically between the .1 gn markings on the scale). A couple would be dead on and usuall one at both extremes +/- .1 gr. This is following the manual instructions to let it warm up 20 minutes when first powered on. Then to calibrate it, and recalibrate every time it is turned of and back on for less than 20 minutes, for instance when I emptied the hopper or moved its position. This is a simple two minute process. The scale has a bubble level and adjustable feet. Very easy to use. For manual dispensing just make sure it is zeroed with the pan on it, then use the touch screen numeric pad to enter your charge weight, and press the green Go button. It will rapidly trickle up to about half a grain of the charge weight then slow way down to trickle a couple of kernels of Varget or several ball grains of H335 at a time to edge up to the charge weight. It took 17 seconds for the 25.5 and 21 seconds for a 50.0 charge weight. This is at least as good but I think slightly better than my trusty RCBS Uniflow mechanical measure. And considering on the mechanical I would recycle charges that hung up on the sticks (every five or six throws) it is about as fast and much less frustrating. Stick powders have been the best for me for precision match loads but the most troublesome to get accurate charge weights. Either tedious manual trickling or frequent hang ups and recycles with the mechanical measure. The Bluetooth link and app were super easy to set up. Connected easily and stayed connected. You can run the calibration and charging from the app or keypad. They both keep track of number of charges thrown so you can compare at the end if you missed any cases or double charged any. This ChargeMaster Link is fantastic. There may be other good brands as well. But this entry level auto dispenser from RCBS is a dream. If you have problems you either got a lemon so contact RCBS. Or you need to let it warm up or turn on and off and calibrate when moving it. Or you have issues with static or electronic interference. I did use Blaster Graphite Dry Lubricant spray on a cotton swab to lube the trickler tube first. It unscrews from the scale.

Great piece of kit. Saves a lot of time when reloading. However I have noticed it's not always super accurate when set. It will measure our quite accurate 95% of the time however you will notice sometimes it when it's measuring a following charge, it pours a little too quickly and doesn't slow down to it's final trickle speed. When this happens it will read a correct charge but if you lift the pan and set it back down on the scale and it will read an over charge by about .2 grains. (I've verified this with another separate scale). It's very noticeable when it does it however when it does occur I just dump the charge back into the hopper and let it pour another charge (I was using IMR 3031 so maybe being a ball and flake powders wont do this as often) Even with this issue I still really like this product

This works good but as with all scales under $500 it drifts and simple needs to be recalibrated.... It's a real time saver with powders that can't be thrown out of a powder dispenser.... It normally drops the charge on the money but accuracy is only within a tenth of a grain like most scales.... I double check each charge with a separate digital scale and it's rarely off , the system works good and really speeds things up compared to the trickle up method... I highly suggest wiping it down before each use with a dryer sheet to remove static electricity.... Static electricity is what causes most problems with any digital scale... Even leaving the dryer sheet in the powder hopper when storing the unit... Keeping static electricity off the unit will stop misreads and drifting on any digital scale or at least keep them to a minimum.... I don't use the blue tooth function... System works good and saves a lot of time with tough powders... Can only imagine how good it would be with an easy to use powder...

I purchased the RCBS Chargemaster to speed up my reloading, where I normally weigh every charge to +/- 0.1 grain. I load modest volumes of approximately 40 different cartridges, so consequently use a number of different powders and charge weights. The Chargemaster is very easy to set up and specify different powder charges, and dramatically speeds up my reloading when I am loading 50x - 100x of any given cartridge. This is especially true when I am loading a single cartridge case with several different grain weights of one powder. My only fairly mild criticism is that changing powders is slightly awkward, with the low positioning of the emptying port requiring one to use a fairly shallow tray to accept the powder to be changed. A simple solution is to raise up the Chargemaster a couple of inches with some kind of stable spacer (books work fine). Cleaning the hopper and trickler tube is pretty easy to eliminate stray powder grains. Since I load mostly large volume blackpowder cases with smokeless "equivalents", I concentrate on 3-4 different powders. So I am thinking about buying a second chargemester to allow me one for the most common powder (AA5744) and the second to use with a selection of others (e.g., 4198, 4350, Trail Boss, Varget). By the way, all of these powders measure very well with the Chargemaster, and I only have to discard maybe one charge in 40x - 50x due to mismeasurement (e.g., going over the set charge). This is an excellent powder dispenser at a very reasonable price.

I love it and is very accurate and easy to use

Very good product, easy to use very accurate. Well worth the money if you're reloading

I’ve had a few dispensers and so far this one has yet to throw an overcharge, have done about 500 rounds. Easy to use and easy to clean!!! So far I love it!!!

très bon produit extrêmement précis ,bonne qualité