bradthegunmaniac Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 How many 9mm rounds can I reload with 8 Lbs of powder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 You'll get alot of answers and some will be very accurate. But in general it is around 1500 per pound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMcDonough Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 well there is 7000 grains in 1 pound so 56000 grains in 8 pounds. It depends on the load you choose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Told you! So you get 1666 loads @4.2 per round. So generally speaking 1500 is a good number to count on especially for knowing when to get more powder. Plus the math is easier. i.e How many rounds can I load from 8lbs of powder? Around 12000. Who cares that it is exactly 13328? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 How many 9mm rounds can I reload with 8 Lbs of powder? It depends on how hot the load that you want to use is, and the powder you will be using. As others have advised, there are 7000 grains in a pound of powder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Scher Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 How many 9mm rounds can I reload with 8 Lbs of powder? You can always answer that question for any load and any amount of powder. First... Google "wiki gram" to get the wiki page that has this conversion information: 1 grain (gr) = 0.06479891 grams (g) 1 gram (g) = 15.4323583529 grains (gr) Or... Just Google "Gram to Grain" and then "Grain to Gram", which will give you the same information, but will also give you a calculator that lets you just plug the numbers in and click ENTER. Anyway, no matter how much powder you have, you can always easily convert it from pounds to ounces to grams to grains. Well, easily with a calculator... A bit less easily with pen and paper, but still not particularly difficult. Once you have the weight in grains of your powder stash, simply divide THAT number by the number of grains called for in whatever load you wish to use. You don't even need algebra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 How many 9mm rounds can I reload with 8 Lbs of powder? You can always answer that question for any load and any amount of powder. First... Google "wiki gram" to get the wiki page that has this conversion information: 1 grain (gr) = 0.06479891 grams (g) 1 gram (g) = 15.4323583529 grains (gr) Or... Just Google "Gram to Grain" and then "Grain to Gram", which will give you the same information, but will also give you a calculator that lets you just plug the numbers in and click ENTER. Anyway, no matter how much powder you have, you can always easily convert it from pounds to ounces to grams to grains. Well, easily with a calculator... A bit less easily with pen and paper, but still not particularly difficult. Once you have the weight in grains of your powder stash, simply divide THAT number by the number of grains called for in whatever load you wish to use. You don't even need algebra. Uh, I think they covered all of that in post #3, when he said there are 7,000 grains per pound.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH45 Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I had 1,100, .308 cases prepped and an 8 pound container of powder. My load was 44 grains of powder, and doing the math, I SHOULD have had enough powder for 1,272 rounds. I ran out of powder, and opened another new, 1 pound container, went through that,(which, by the math, SHOULD have been good for another 155 rounds) and still had about 50 rounds of brass to load. Needless to say, I was a little peeved that I couldn't get the whole batch of ammo loaded with one lot of powder! The other issue I had was when the "new" lot of powder went through the powder measure, it was weighing out at 44.8 grains instead of 44 grains. I debated as to whether to lighten the charge, or, go by volume, and decided to go by volume. I haven't had a chance to shoot the two on paper to compare yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffWard Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 How many 9mm rounds can I reload with 8 Lbs of powder? It depends on how hot the load that you want to use is, and the powder you will be using. As others have advised, there are 7000 grains in a pound of powder. So shooting 9mm 147gr bullets, w/ 3.5gr of Solo per round... 16,000 rounds per 8lb bucket. At 800 rounds per month, 20 months worth of powder... Damn near 2 years! So.... I need to shoot MORE so my powder doesn't go bad! (I needed an excuse) Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moverfive Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I think a few folks have posted something similar..... .....the other thing I use this file for is to answer the question: which powder is more expensive in reality? Hence the cost per round. Cost to Load.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Scher Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Uh, I think they covered all of that in post #3, when he said there are 7,000 grains per pound.... Well grumpy, that's great if you are always talking about a single pound. What if you're talking about other quantities? What if you're talking about a powder that doesn't come in 1, 4 or 8 pound sizes because of it's bulk? What the other poster did was to GIVE him a fish. What I did was teach him HOW to fish. Oh and.... Right back atchya! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 (edited) Uh, I think they covered all of that in post #3, when he said there are 7,000 grains per pound.... Well grumpy, that's great if you are always talking about a single pound. What if you're talking about other quantities? What if you're talking about a powder that doesn't come in 1, 4 or 8 pound sizes because of it's bulk? What the other poster did was to GIVE him a fish. What I did was teach him HOW to fish. Oh and.... Right back atchya! Eric, anyone who can't do simple math, shouldn't be loading anyway. So, by your reckoning, it's almost impossible to figure out how many rounds if it doesn't come in a 1, 4 or 8 lb can? Well, let's see....half of 7,000 is 3,500, so a 1/2 lb can is 3,500 grains...Or add 3,500 to 7,000 and you get 1 1/2lbs. Or how about dividing 7,000 by 4? That will give you 1/4lb. See how simple that was? Now you try it. Teach, huh...What you did was tell him how to make something hard when it should be easy.... KISS......Keep It Simple & Stupid. Edited April 24, 2010 by GrumpyOne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Habicht Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 With 147s at 3.5 gr. pretty close to 2,000 rounds per pound or 16,000 per 8 lb. jug.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradthegunmaniac Posted April 27, 2010 Author Share Posted April 27, 2010 Thanks guys sorry for the heated topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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