How many .223 cases in a 5 gallon bucket




















You can find out just how many pieces you have! Got the brass and bullets, just don't have enough of the stuff that makes it go bang! Nope, I am striving to hopefully get to half of Randall's or Chief's stockpile. I have the bullets, primers and powder, I need more brass or a trimmer.

Then minus the weight of the bucket and divide. I've been picking up my. I don't have any plans to do my own reloads so was wondering what people are paying for brass. When the bucket is at the 50 percent mark is it considered half full or half empty? Maybe a little more.

I suspect filled absolutely to the top, you would have 8k 9mm in a 5 gallon bucket. That will give you a rough estimate. I'd always weighed out 10 pieces of brass to get an average, multiply that by , and then divide total weight by to get pounds..

I am not going to count out 1k pieces of brass If I'm trading or selling brass, to make up for any error I just toss in a handfull to "make sure" there are at least usable pieces in there.

It's worked so far. The 5 gallon bucket hold about 7 1 gallon coffee cans full. I guess because they fit in more efficiently due to the different radius of the bucket The bucket being filled to about 1.

Probably actually more than 5 gallons as the buckets are generally a little taller than an actual 5 gallon capicity..? The only one jmorris did not already have I think was the. The stuff he came up with and mine, for the limited calibers I counted, were very close I have about 5 buckets of. Primer and powder to fill them too, but a little short on the freakin' bullets as they are too expensive to stock pile.

I just picked up a five gallon bucket of once-fired R-P. Hello: My revolver shoots 40 You guys are killing me. I guess I need get back to being a brass rat I also need to order primers and bullets. I have lots of powder Thanks, Eric. How much brass in 5 gallon buckets? Start new topic. Recommended Posts.

I ran some numbers based on the dimensions of a home depot 5 gallon bucket, the dimensions of a. The maximum that could fit in the space of the bucket, assuming perfect packing is along the lines of cases. That would weigh 59 pounds plus the bucket weight.

The cases would weigh almost 74 pounds. You can gauge how well they're packed by weighing the filled bucket. The link AeroE provided has a good estimate that cases weighs 10 pounds. I was also interested in this as I had recently asked at my local range how much he'd charge for a five gallon bucket of range brass only pistols allowed at this range since they just sweep up the brass and sell it for recycling scrap.

I passed as it seemed pretty steep to me. I then wondered if it would be a good deal or not. I have and shoot most pistol calibers with the exception of 9mm, but I'm going to load those up for a friend so I could eventually use most of the brass there, but really I'm mostly interested in 45 acp. I would have taken the deal if he let me sort the brass out and I had the time to do it.

Not sure on a 5 gallon bucket of. About 3, - 3, Figure to , depending on how full you condider "to the brim" is and how well it packs. Quoted: AeroE - thanks for the link, but I couldn't find a volume correlation there only mass. Quoted: Figure to , depending on how full you condider "to the brim" is and how well it packs.



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