I concede, it’s a given, if you use a Lee scoop in the same manner, all the time, the amount of powder will be approximately the same and your accuracy will be more than sufficient for pistol cartridges and Cowboy ranges.
If you take a clean and primed .45-70 case and fill it up with powder, you will have so many grains per cc of the case, amount A
Tapping the case allows the powder to settle so you can ad more powder, now you have amount B in the case.
If you use your press to compress the powder, you can ad more powder, now you have amount C in the case.
In this case you have 3 different grain weights for the same volume, which is why the original question is invalid.
If you set conditions it may change, and it will change for each set of conditions.
The confusion of measurement units from different countries, with the same name resulted in most of the world going over to the SI Metric system. Resultin in a number of obscure, but accurate publications.
The non metric countries at present are; Burma (Myanmar), Liberia, and the United States.
That last statement may be in error, in view of this web site.
http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/metric-program.cfmHas anybody checked on how accurate Lee scoops are, over a run of reloading?.
I have done this with a Lee Perfect Powder measure, and running a pound of powder, FFg GOEX, through it I found a difference of less than 2% between the high and low measurements.
http://www.shilohrifle.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7037&highlight=The link is to the Shilo forum, it shows a comparison of 4 types of powder measures, and accuracy with different powders.
My small electronic scale, $20.00 at a gun show, measures in; grains, grams, ounces and carats.
Carats are used to check the weight of those expensive store bought bullets
Drink beer by the Canadian gallon it has 4.546 09 liters.
The US gallon only has 3.785 412 liters, …even in Texas.
The Canadian gallon was not an Imperial gallon, but an Australian gallon was an Imperial gallon.
Retired people have way too much time on their hands