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SHOT Show 2025: Improved Tools From RCBS

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The new Matchmaster Powder Funnel
RCBS calls it the “fastest funnel available,” partly due to the aluminum funnel itself wearing a non-stick coating to keep powder granules moving “without a grain left behind,” RCBS says.

A UNIFLOW FOR COMPETITION
One update is revisiting the powder baffle in the hopper, long trusted to regulate powder compression at the bottom of the powder column, which equates to more consistent charge weights. RCBS improved the hopper, as well, in giving it threads for easy removal for cleaning.

Secondly, the UPM-3 utilizes a single cylinder for rifle and pistol powders—extruded, ball and flake—rather than separate cylinders as in the original Uniflow Powder Measure. The single cylinder will meter from 0.5 grain to 100 grains, depending upon powder type.

NEW DIES
RCBS’s Matchmaster Series of precision dies featuring micrometer adjustable seating depth, in both Full Length Bushing and Neck Bushing versions. Other new Matchmaster seating dies include .22 Creedmoor, .222 Rem., 6 mm Rem., .257 Roberts, 6.5 mm Grendel, 6.8 mm Western, 7x57 Mauser, .280 Rem., .280 AI, 28 Nosler, .300 BLK, 7.62x39 and .338 Win.


 
While i hope the extruded could flow better, it's a fight in those smaller calibers (especially in 26 and under). However the coating to keep it flowing would hopefully be anti-static also. I've been using extruded powders in a 550 setup for 40 years in 264wm. It's slow, but can be done if you tap enough. Be interesting on how improved it is?
 
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