[skeet]

In precision hunting loads for my rifles I weigh the charges. For most of the rest I use a Dillon 650 or 550 and use the powder measure on the loader. As far as shotshell loads I use the bushing charges in both shot and powder. Oh I work the load up and make sure it is right...by hand of course. From that point on it really isn't worth the time or trouble to weigh powder charges and unless loading large sizes of shot in large quantities I use the bushing after I make certain it loads what I want. There are small differences in loads with the shotgun anyway and if the load is set up correctly no reason to weigh shotshell loads. I used to load my shells for waterfowl and I shot an awful lot of shells at ducks and geese. Guided waterfowl hunters for 34 yrs and used almost all reloads for 25 of them...except what I could scarf up from the hunters I took out. I even loaded steel for a while and finally realized that the factory was making loads as good or better than mine....so I started using factory steel and then I found hevi shot...whoa...I never have looked back at steel since then...except for a case of steel 6's I loaded up years ago for teal. Make nice cripple loads. Good for teal at the 5 to 20 yds I shoot them. In the first dozen years I reloaded shot shells, I would make a close guess that I loaded 750 to 800 thousand shells. 500 thousand were our own once fired empties. Man was I glad when they started makin Winchester AA shells. Didn't have to iron or wax 'em like ya did paper shells. and no base wads blowing out. I even sent some waterfowl loads I had made up to HP White labs to have 'em checked for velocity and pressure. They were loads right from the loader. No weighed charges either.