I bought this to do some reloading as a new hobby, I was using a friends hornady digital scale until this came in. In my case this scale is more accurate and very easy to use. I cannot speak to longevity because i have not had it more than a week but so far it seems like it is going to be just perfect for my needs. The scale was right on the 50 gram weight included in the package, right out of the box and has proven right on with a 26.5 grain load of CFE 223 for my .223 rounds. I will update if I have any issues. (measure twice, pour once:)) Did not give 5 stars because I cannot yet rate longevity.

Some people have been dissing this, but to be honest, it actually works pretty good. Turn it on for a few moments before starting to use it, is always my advice with any digital scale. My biggest complaint is that the time-out is entirely too fast. With a digital scale, they need to warm up to be consistent. But if it keeps turning itself off, it's not staying warmed up. If you are using it heavy, it does at least notice being used and resetting it's timer. Also, in this day and age any device like this should have a MicroSD slot to support external power as an option.

This works pretty good for the price but it is definitely a learning curve, you have to allow it to warm up after you turn it on or it is not accurate, once you get your tray tared you have to keep checking to make sure it holds zero after you pour out your powder charge, and finaly it has a delay to weigh so you have to pour or trickle kind of slow and wait for it to catch up. Over all it is very accurate once you learn how to use it but I checked it to my beam scale and it is just as accurate and a little faster so.............

Pros: Cheap, compact, easy to use.
Cons: The displayed weight changes .1-.2 grains when the light is on/off, light on lowers the displayed weight. It's very slow to read so using it for trickling charges is very annoying. It often 'sticks' at one reading 'till enough weight has been added then jumps up. If you don't wait several seconds or lift/lower the pan to force it to read you'll wind up over charged. I load charges from just over 1gr. to over 70gr. and it does it about the same. Lifting/lowering the pan often displays changes of .1-.3gr. so to be somewhat confident of the actual charge weight you have to recheck several times.

If it weren't so cheap I'd give it a 1 star, but for the money it's ok. For something less important/precise than weighing charges it would probably be fine.

I like it! Seems pretty accurate. I use it for reloading bullets and it does just fine. I put the empty powder measure on the scale, zero the scale, dispense the powder from the Lee powder dispenser (i know-not the correct name) weigh it and put the powder into the shell case, then repeat for the next shell. Easy! I do have to check the zero occasionally, but it is much easier than using the Lee balance beam.