How many in a 5 gal. bucket?

[egd]

Does anyone have a good idea of how many 9mm cases would be in a 5 gal bucket filled level to the top? I darn sure ain't gonna count'em. Thanks

 

[higgite]

A tall skinny bucket or a short wide bucket?

 

[Armored farmer]

Weigh the bucket of cases, then weigh 100 cases.
Do the math.
Tgat should give you an educated guestimate

 

[egd]

A 5 gal paint bucket-tall. Although wouldn't 5gal be the same volume regardless of the shape?

 

[egd]

I've thought about weighing and doing math, but I don't know the weight of the bucket. But still, it would give me a rough idea. I just thought someone here may have already figured this out.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

A 5 gal paint bucket-tall. Although wouldn't 5gal be the same volume regardless of the shape?

No the short ones are 20 quarts.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

Diamond K and others sell brass in 55gal drums. 90,000 plus of 9mm in a drum. If you call them they may be able to give you a more accurate estimate.

 

[egd]

4 qts per gal x5 = 20.

 

[egd]

If 55 gal is 90000, then 5 should be 8,181.8. If I did that right?

 

[Dudedog]

Ok a gallon is 231 cubic inches
5 gal = 1155cu
If we say a 9mm case is a straight cylinder .394*.754 that gives us a volume of .09192
so 12564, guess maybe 20% air space so maybe 10000?
(no idea on the air space number just a guess)

Will someone please fill a bucket and count them so I can see how far off this guess is

Edit: From info below it looks like my 20% airspace # was low closer to 25% makes it work out about right.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

4 qts per gal x5 = 20.

Boy do I feel dumb

 

[cheygriz]

approx. 8500-9000

 

[jmorris]

If you would like to know how many rounds of brass you have lying around, as I did, you can use the information below. If anyone wants to count them out to see how close my calculations are let me know what you find out.

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

If you use 5gal buckets each full one will have

9MM = 8500-9000 pieces
.40 S&W = 7000-7500 pieces
.45 ACP = 3800-4000 pieces

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

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

If you would like to know how many rounds of brass you have lying around, as I did, you can use the information below. If anyone wants to count them out to see how close my calculations are let me know what you find out.

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

If you use 5gal buckets each full one will have

9MM = 8500-9000 pieces
.40 S&W = 7000-7500 pieces
.45 ACP = 3800-4000 pieces

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

Great post, thanks for the info.
I have an old glass 5 gallon water jar full of pennies. Would you happen to know how many are in it?

 

[jmorris]

Take a penny and set it on your powder scale. Take that number and divide 7000 by it.

So say it weighs say 38.7 grains. 7000/38.7=181 per pound.

If you had a full 5 gallons of pennies it would weigh around 180.5 pounds (subtracting empty container weight) itself so 180.5x181=32,670.5 or $326.70 +/-.

 

[higgite]

Do you have a one quart container? Say, a jar? Or ice cream carton? Fill it up with cases, count them and multiply by 20.

BTW, the tall or short bucket thing was a joke. Unless, the bucket is .394" ID and 789.44' tall. Then it would hold 12564 cases, per Dudedog's post #10.

 

[GRIZ22]

Great post, thanks for the info.
I have an old glass 5 gallon water jar full of pennies. Would you happen to know how many are in it?

A gallon of pennies is about $100. You have about $500. I saved a gallon of pennies once to satisfy my curiosity.

 

[egd]

This is turning into a more interesting thread than I thought it would be. Tonight I think I'll do some counting and weighing.

 

[.308 Norma]

Approximately 8640 if they are not resized. Approximately 8,800 if they are resized

While shaking the jar once in a while, I was able to get 216 (not resized) 9mm cases, or 220 (resized) 9mm cases into a pint jar. There are 40 pints in 5 gallons, so:

216 X 40 = 8,640 or 220 X 40 = 8,800

Deer season opens in the morning, but we’re retired, our rifles are sighted in, the truck is loaded and ready to go, and my wife’s traditional “Opening Morning Eve” vegetable beef soup is in the slow cooker. I’m sitting around with nothing to do, goofing off on the internet, and anxiously awaiting supper tonight and daybreak tomorrow morning. So to occupy my time, I counted how many 9mm cases, both not resized and resized, I could crowd into a pint jar - while shaking the jar once in a while to settle the cases.

 

[brasscollector]

Oh I love these types of games..what's the prize if we guess the correct number?

 

[rfwobbly]

Oh I love these types of games..what's the prize if we guess the correct number?

One Halloween they had a "guess the number of candy corn in the fish bowl" contest at work. I went and measured the fish bowl, then modeled the fish bowl in a 3D engineering software package on my computer. Then happened to find a 1 cubic inch container that I put candy corn into. My entry (1,173) came within 1 candy corn of being correct. No one else was even close.

The point is, the contents of these larger containers can easily and accurately be discerned by working with smaller volumes filled with the same item.

PS. I won a big pumpkin.

 

[PWC]

And the dish ran away with the spoon....

 

[luger fan]

Oh I love these types of games..what's the prize if we guess the correct number?

You get to clean them.

 

[Jim Watson]

A range operator offered to sell me a five gallon can of 9mm; said "Why, that's 20,000 rounds." Well, no. I googled around and found numbers from 7700 to 10,000, but mostly in the mid-8000s.

 

[Allen One1]

A range operator offered to sell me a five gallon can of 9mm; said "Why, that's 20,000 rounds." Well, no. I googled around and found numbers from 7700 to 10,000, but mostly in the mid-8000s.

Those evidently were not once fire cases if it took 20,000 round to fill his bucket.