I used to load a lot of steel loads with a 600 jr. I loaded a lot before I ever bought the conversion kit without a lot of trouble. Loading steel is a lot different than loading lead. When the manuals say to follow the recipies exactly, they mean it. No just following the recipie in general like you can with lead. A lot of the conversion kit is about measuring and dropping the shot, but I found thar #2 was my best asize for duck hunting, and when I was loading that it was just about as easy to count it as to try to ger it through a measure.
It isn't as hard to count as you think. Take an empty container tray for large rifle primers and dip it into a container of #2 shot and Wa La you have counted ot 100 #2s. It seems to me the load I was shooting called for around 250 shot, so tape the primer tray to hold 81 shot and dip it three times. I'm not sure how I got them into the empty, I think I took the bottom plug out of the shot jar, and then dumped each counted charge in the jar as I needed it. I had a much larger than necessary charge bar for the volume of steel shot and with much jiggiling pursuadesd it to go down the charge tube.
