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mash man
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Location: Airway heights Joined: Sun Mar 20, 2011 Posts: 12246
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I have a cat litter tub full of .223 a few thousand worth and I am not going to count by hand. Who has the right scale?
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 5:54 pm |
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Pablo
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Just get a relatively inexpensive digital pound scale. Some are under $20-25 and last a long time. I have two I use daily for business. 10+ years old.
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:12 pm |
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new daddy
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Location: Normandy Park Joined: Sun Mar 11, 2012 Posts: 1416
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I've got a cheap one I bought at Costco business 15 years ago for about $30. It will weigh as little as one brass cartridge and I think it goes up to 50 pounds. Does ounces, grams, pounds, and kilos.
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:19 pm |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11097
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Depends on who you are selling to
We just did a group buy for 1000 blanks and came up one short
If you list a sale based on weight/approximate round count you should be fine
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:21 pm |
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MadPick
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Location: Renton, WA Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 52067
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RocketScott wrote: If you list a sale based on weight/approximate round count you should be fine Yup. Here's what I do: 1) Use my inexpensive kitchen scale to measure, say, 10 cases. Get an average weight per case. 2) Put the bucket on the bathroom scale. Get a total weight. 3) Subtract the weight of the empty bucket. Estimate if you need to. 4) Divide the total weight by the weight of each case to get a total round count. Be conservative, advertise it as an estimate. You'll be close.
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:25 pm |
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MadPick
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Location: Renton, WA Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 52067
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P.S. If you don't have a kitchen scale, get one . . . they are very helpful not just for reloading but also for actual kitchen stuff! Oh, and for calculating how many stamps you need on that envelope, too. Here's an example, pulled pretty much at random from Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/NUTRI-FIT-Mult ... 0785L18R8/
_________________SteveBenefactor Life Member, National Rifle AssociationLife Member, Second Amendment FoundationPatriot & Life Member, Gun Owners of AmericaLife Member, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear ArmsLegal Action Supporter, Firearms Policy CoalitionMember, NAGR/NFGRPlease support the organizations that support all of us.Leave it cleaner than you found it.
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:28 pm |
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MyNameIs940
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Location: Kirkland Joined: Wed May 30, 2018 Posts: 820
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Oldandcranky1 wrote: 9mm, 59.46gr/ea, 117.7cases/#, 8.5#/1000
38spl, 68.06gr/ea, 102.8cases/#, 9.7#/1000
40s&w, 70.1gr/ea, 99.9cases/#, 10#/1000
.357mag, 78.3gr/ea, 89.4cases/#, 11.2#/1000
.45acp, 89.58gr/ea, 78.1cases/#, 12.8#/1000
.223, 95.28gr/ea , 73.5cases/#, 13.6#/1000
.44mag, 114.38gr/ea, 61.2cases/#, 16.3#/1000
50bmg, 865.26gr/ea, 8.1cases/#, 123.5#/1000
All weights are uncleaned fired cases with the primer remaining.
Individual case weights were derived using an average of mixed brass weights (except 50bmg)
So, if you picked up 8#?s of 45 brass: 8# X 78.1cases/# = 625 cases+/-
If you use 1gal ziploc freezer bags to store your brass, each (full) bag contains:
9mm, 15.6#, 1836cases 40s&w, 12.2#, 1219cases 45acp, 11.4#, 890cases 223, 11#, 809cases
or if you use the 5gal bucket method
9MM = 8500-9000 pieces .40 S&W = 7000-7500 pieces .45 ACP = 3800-4000 pieces
here is a few more
CASES per POUND:
.380: 145 .357 Sig: 96 .45 GAP: 86 .32: 168 10mm: 96 FN 5.7: 124 .25 acp: 260 .30 Luger: 120 .38 S&W: 120 .38 Super: 104 9mm MAK: 124 .45 Colt: 60 .30-M1: 100 .308: 40 .30-06: 35 7.62x39: 54 .50 AE: 48 .30-30: 52 Thank you so much, I’m saving this for future reference. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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lionhrt
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new daddy wrote: I've got a cheap one I bought at Costco business 15 years ago for about $30. It will weigh as little as one brass cartridge and I think it goes up to 50 pounds. Does ounces, grams, pounds, and kilos. Part of me wants to know why you are weighing kilos
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NWGunner
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lionhrt wrote: new daddy wrote: I've got a cheap one I bought at Costco business 15 years ago for about $30. It will weigh as little as one brass cartridge and I think it goes up to 50 pounds. Does ounces, grams, pounds, and kilos. Part of me wants to know why you are weighing kilos To finance gun purchases... Isn't that how it's done?
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 7:39 pm |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11097
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lionhrt wrote: new daddy wrote: I've got a cheap one I bought at Costco business 15 years ago for about $30. It will weigh as little as one brass cartridge and I think it goes up to 50 pounds. Does ounces, grams, pounds, and kilos. Part of me wants to know why you are weighing kilos He’s selling to France, they don’t know WTF a quarter pounder is. Royale with cheese... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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mcyclonegt
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_________________ "I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and TANKS! I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN! And loved only one woman, with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!"
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Mon Aug 27, 2018 9:27 pm |
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mash man
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Location: Airway heights Joined: Sun Mar 20, 2011 Posts: 12246
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So I sent mark a PM and you were next if he wasn't able to help (he's retired) thanks guys for the helpful feedback I will not delete and bump due to the helpful info.
_________________ANZAC wrote: That one that says "From my cold dead hands..... will require a background check" He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. --- Leonardo DaVinci When its time to go in: That place of steel and stone. I pray that you will keep me safe, so I will not walk alone. Help me to do my duty, please watch me on my rounds. Amongst those perilous places and slamming steel door sounds. God, keep my fellow Officers well and free from harm. Let them know I'll be there too, whenever there's alarm. Above all when I walk my beat, no matter where I roam. Let me go back whence I came, to family and homeAuthor unknown.
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mcyclonegt
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I work for the DOD, its the same as retired.
_________________ "I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and TANKS! I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN! And loved only one woman, with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!"
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". Albert Einstein 1947
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mash man
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mcyclonegt wrote: I work for the DOD, its the same as retired.
_________________ANZAC wrote: That one that says "From my cold dead hands..... will require a background check" He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. --- Leonardo DaVinci When its time to go in: That place of steel and stone. I pray that you will keep me safe, so I will not walk alone. Help me to do my duty, please watch me on my rounds. Amongst those perilous places and slamming steel door sounds. God, keep my fellow Officers well and free from harm. Let them know I'll be there too, whenever there's alarm. Above all when I walk my beat, no matter where I roam. Let me go back whence I came, to family and homeAuthor unknown.
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Caveman Jim
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Some valuable information here as expected.
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