digital scale for weighing guns
 

Where is good place to shop for digital scale suitable for guns?

I got a Post Office scale that they sell behind the counter. I weights up to about 10 1/2 pounds. Wasn't too expensive. What about a digital bathroom scale?

I use a digital food scale, about $10, at Wallyworld or the likes. I think it goes to twelve pounds. Also measures shot charges in hundreds of an ounce for special handloads like buckshot, hevi-shot, etc.

tried the digital bathroom scales and get a different weight every time I try it.

Any good postal scale will do a good job. I use a Pelouze Model PE10 Digital. It has a 10lb. capacity. Very accurate and not to expensive.
Bob Jurewicz

A digital luggage scale works and they run as low as $3 and as high as $25

A good place to buy a digital postal scale is EBAY. Go there and do a search for "digital postal scale" and you'll literally have hundreds, if not thousands to choose from. For the best value look for one that offers Free Shipping. Here's one that weighs up to 86 lbs. with accuracy to .2 oz. offering more versatility than for just weighing guns.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Accuteck-Dre...item5d4a9c2ed2

These typically sell in the $6 to $12 range and are delivered free to your mailbox or front door.

My digital bathroom scales wont even weigh that small of an amount. they just regester an error.

I prefer a period correct scale :) This one has a patent date of 1913. It will only measure to the ounce but it comes up with the same weight as the research letter for this gun which is good enough for me.

I have a flat digital postal scale I keep in my truck with my other tools. Picked it up at Office Depot. I figured it was worth having one in the bag with my other stuff just so I could weigh Parker barrels.

really like those scales pete.. charlie

I use the cheap electronic fish scales. I took them to Gander Mountain and talked the gun salesman into letting me weigh several of their guns on their very expensive certified electronic shipping scale and then I would weigh the gun with my fish scales. Within an ounce so close enough for me.

I open the gun and put the hook through the extended extractors. For awhile I used a long string through the trigger guard but my shooting student Joe Wood convinced the the extractors were more than strong enough to hang a seven or eight pound gun. I usually carry my fish scale, wall thickness gauge, and bore diameter gauge to gunshows.

By laying a gun on its side on a table I am also able to use the digitial scale to measure trigger pulls. I get pretty close to the gunsmiths measurement. Some uncertainty in where to put the hook on the trigger and the angle of the scale to the trigger though.

I just ordered one from Amazon.com that weighs up to 75 lbs with an accuracy of 0.1 oz-- Price $18 plus shipping.