Brass weight

About 80. 12.5 pounds per 1000.

What headstamp are they? 12.5 lbs per 1000 is pretty standard from what I can tell.

Deprimed or primed?

Yes 12.5 pounds should be very close.

Deprimed or primed?

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Good point. I know the used primers I just got rid of got me 35.00 a couple of months ago. They were in a 10 gal bucket but I don't know how much they weighed. It was pretty heavy though.

The primer isn't going to make a lick of difference.
Weigh one case, in grains, divide into 7,000.

The primer isn't going to make a lick of difference.
Weigh one case, in grains, divide into 7,000.

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It does if your doing a lot of cases, 50~100k, the weight does add up to quite a bit of weight. I can't remember the difference but the 10gal bucket of brass with a lot lighter than 10gal bucket of primers. The brass bucket was up to the top while the primer bucket was about 3/4 full.

When I de-cap they all empty into a 10 gal bucket, the crap brass gets tossed into another bucket. Both buckets go to the scrap yard. Considering the amount of good brass vs bad, less than 1/5 bad, I manage to make a little extra money on the primers and they pay by weight. As long as there's no steel, which primers aren't, I'm happy.

I use 80 per pound.

To count them get a scale and use the info below



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