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Grain Scale

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Where is everybody buying there scales i can,t seem to find any that weigh in grains! thanks
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Gun store's, I have an old beam scale, a rcbs and hornady digital .
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Got mine off ebay
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try harbour freight there cheap there
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Picked mine up at Bass pro.
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Got mine at the local gun shop for about $35.
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What your looking for is a reloading scale.

Edited to add that i meant a digital one, not a balance beam one. :D
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if you can not find one, get a set of digital scales and weigh your arrow, take the weight and go online and convert, in on line conveyer, thats what I do and its super easy, when you have done it enough times or you write down the chart and bingo.
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ebay, $5.00
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Got mine at the local gun shop.............RCBS balance beam.
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I picked up a Hornady CS-1500 digital scale from Cabela's for around 30.00. It weighs in several different modes including grains & comes with a 100gr weight to calibrate with. Very happy with this scale.
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here is a link to the ones i buy when i'm across the border . you may have a friend that could pick one up and ship. at the price even 2

http://www.harborfreight.com/digital-po ... 93543.html
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Used to use a cheapo pot scale from a head shop, it worked well and did grains too. It was $10.
Ended up buying a Hornady from a sportsman show, looks better and does the same thing for about $30.
The Hornandy measures each grain of powder as it hits the pan, the head shop version would need a few grains before it would catch up.
For arrows, there was no difference.
Google makes a great converter if you only have grams. Just type "100 grams to grains" in Google, and it will do an exact conversion for you.
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got one from harbor freight.
it was ten bucks if i remember
works like a champ, and spot on.
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