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With all the talk about powder measures and how inaccurate they are, I made my own out of pieces of shed whitetail antlers. I have some new bullets, sabots and a range of charges to run through my Encore, but I didn't want to have to take a scale to be sure how much T7 I was putting down the tube. My old brass measure is so inaccurate it's crazy! I made 1 measure that's 70 grains by weight (90 by volume), 1 that's 8 grains by weight, so I can add the 2 to get to 78 grains by weight (100 by volume), 1 that's 42.5 by weight (2 of those will give me 85 grains by weight, 110 by volume, the tine was too short to go any deeper). I started to see light penetrating from the outside so it was time to stop drilling. I don't plan on shooting 120 grains by volume, I don't need the torture, unless nothing else groups. I drilled a few of them a little too deep, so then I just used a Dremel to sand off a few thousandths off the end of the antler. Once I figure out the bullet, sabot and charge the gun likes, I'll drill the 70 grain out to accommodate the final charge. We'll see how they work at the range. They're pretty consistent on the scale.