[DUCKNDAWG]

is 26 grams and 7/8s oz the same?

[cfullgraf]

No.

26 grams = .917123 ounces

7/8 ounces (.875 oz) = 24.8058 grams.

But almost.

A Google search is your friend.

[k4swb]

Hopefully I'm off here but using grams and ounces in a reloading forum worries me.

[Lost Sheep]

is 26 grams and 7/8s oz the same?
No

Grams are mass.

Ounces are force.

Of course, I know grams are used interchangeably with dynes (the metric equivalent of ounces force).

But you have to put up with me being snide before I give you the answer to what amounts to an arithmetic question you can get answered in two places that come immediately to mind.

Google: search for "Metric Conversion"
6th grade science class

Before I give you the numeric answer, here is how to do it.

I recall that 453.6 grams of mass weighs 1 pound, which equals 16 ounces.

Expressed logically:

The unknown weight in ounces (the guessed 7/8) has a relationship to 16 ounces.
26 grams has the same relationship to 543.6 grams


"WHAT" is to 16 ounces as 26 grams is to 453.6

Expressed mathematically:

26 / 453.6 = x / 16

or

16 * 26 / 453.6 = x

x, then, is 0.917108 ounces 7/8 oz is 0.875 ounces

26 grams is closer to 7/8 oz than it is to 1 oounce, but really close to neither


Now, to answer your next question:

What IS 7/8 ounce?

26 grams is 0.917108 ounces
25 grams is 0.881834 ounces
what is 0.875000 ounces? 24.80625 grams
24 grams is 0.846561 ounces


Why do you want to know?

Lost Sheep

When I started, there were no other posts in this thread. I gotta learn to type faster.

[Haxby]

I have onlineconversion.com bookmarked.

[cfullgraf]

Why do you want to know?

.

I am sure he is questioning about shot shell loads looking to see if something is interchangeable.

I have seen recently some reference to 26 gram loads. I cannot remember where and i have slept since then.

k4swb, does you mean we should call a 1 oz shot shell load a 437.5 grain load?

[denton]

Only in the anachronistic world of reloading will you find "grains" still in common use for rifle and pistol powder and "drams" or "dram equivalent" used in shotguns. Europe has has long since switched to grams, which are the standard unit of mass in practically all the world.

[JohnM]

Only in the anachronistic world of reloading will you find "grains" still in common use for rifle and pistol powder and "drams" or "dram equivalent" used in shotguns. Europe has has long since switched to grams, which are the standard unit of mass in practically all the world.

So, ------ We like it the way it is here.

[beatledog7]

I'm very much a traditionalist, so grains, fathoms, furlongs and things like that appeal to me.

Modern is ok, but there are some traditional, distinctly un-modern things that just need to endure.

[DUCKNDAWG]

im needing to load some lite loads for my grandsons 12 gauge and the recipe i have says shot charge is 26 grams and i was hoping that was close enough to 7/8 oz cuz i have 7/8 oz wads and that is to duplicate winchester AA feather lites

[flashhole]

When did ounces become force?

[Mac Sidewinder]

Ounce can be many things, eg. volume, force, mass.

Mac

[cfullgraf]

I'm very much a traditionalist, so grains, fathoms, furlongs and things like that appeal to me.



The speedometer in my car indicates furlongs/fortnight. A good reliable unit of measure.:)

[cfullgraf]

im needing to load some lite loads for my grandsons 12 gauge and the recipe i have says shot charge is 26 grams and i was hoping that was close enough to 7/8 oz cuz i have 7/8 oz wads and that is to duplicate winchester AA feather lites

Hodgdon Powder site has a bunch of 7/8 oz 12 gauge recipes with a variety of wads and hulls.

http://hodgdon.com/

[cfullgraf]

Ounce can be many things, eg. volume, force, mass.

Mac

Pounds as most commonly used in the US is a weight, which is really a unit of force (mass times acceleration, in this case the acceleration of gravity). So, the ounce unit that is 1/16th of a pound is a force. The unit is really the avoirdupois ounce.

As mac said, it is also a unit of volume. 8 liquid ounces are a cup.

Ever hear the saying "A pint's a pound the world around"? That comes from one pint of water (16 liquid ounces) weighs 1 pound (16 avoirdupois ounces).

Just to confuse things, there are several different units of ounces that are not the same. One example is the troy ounce.

I know TMI.

[splattergun]

beyond onlineconversion...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

[noylj]

If you type in Goggle search (generally at the top of your browser) "26 grams is how many ounces", you'll get "26 grams = 0.917123011 ounces" as the first entry. Of, if you type "7/8 ounces is how many grams", you'll get "(7/8) ounce = 24.8058327 grams" as the first entry. Look at all those (in)significant figures...