rounds per pound

[yotesmoker]

Trying to find the formula to determine how many rounds per pound of powder.=IE...9 gr unique for 45 colt.....and others....how many grains = 1 pound of powder?

 

[edelbrock]

There are 7000 grains in 1lb of powder.
Here is a chart to go by.
http://www.darkcanyon.net/loadsperpound.html

 

[rivraton]

777.78 Rounds per lb. @ 9 gr

 

[yotesmoker]

Thanks all.....thats what I needed.

 

[Seedtick]

Good Question & Answer

Interesting, so according to the chart and starting load grains of powder I should get approximately ~

2,300 rounds for 380 out of a pound of HP38
and
1,400 rounds for 9mm out of a pound of HP38

Let's see, that's around 3700 small pistol primers and at current market price I should be able to get out for $450.

It is a good thing that I'm not easily discouraged.

ST

 

[edelbrock]

Yeah powder goes a long way in those small pistol cartridges. I don't shoot an excessive amount of pistol so I have never found the need to buy an 8# jug for them. 1lb will last me a long time.

 

[editingfx]

1lb will last me a long time

y'all needs to shoot more! (jk, of course!)

I've got 35k small pistol primers & 12 lbs of powder on order. And that's for shootin', not hoardin'.

 

[Gadzooks Mike]

I've had just one thousand small pistol primers on back order now for nearly 2 months. At this rate, they might get here some time before I die of old age.