Maybe I missed this post! How many boolits per pound?

[tayous1]

I was looking at ebay and saw a someone selling lead a little over $1.00 a pound and it got me thinking how many 230gr rounds can I get from a pound of lead? I know there is so math out there that I'm not good at. Thanks

[HammerMTB]

I was looking at ebay and saw a someone selling lead a little over $1.00 a pound and it got me thinking how many 230gr rounds can I get from a pound of lead? I know there is so math out there that I'm not good at. Thanks


There are 7000 grains in a pound.
So if you shoot 700 grain boolits there are 10 per pound.
70 grain boolits get 100 to the pound.
You get my drift.
When ya think about it, there are pretty close to 3 230 grain boolits to a 700 grain boolit.
So about 30.

[RobS]

7000 grains in a pound

[462]

If you have to buy lead, $1 per pound is about right. I wouldn't buy any from an ebay seller, though.

[Doby45]

Maybe I missed this post! How many boolits per pound?

You did.

[williamwaco]

If you have to buy lead, $1 per pound is about right. I wouldn't buy any from an ebay seller, though.



WHY?

I buy all my lead from EBAY.
I have been delighted with the service and the quality on at least eight or ten different occasions.

I can buy wheel weights at the area scrap dealers for 1.00 per pound when I can find them ( That is not often ).
I have to go get them. 40 minute round trip.
I have to load them in my buckets.
I have to unload them.
I have to clean them up.
I have to melt them down.
I have to clean up the clips, dirt, and caked on grease.
I have to flux them, usually three or four times to get them clean.
I have to pour them into ingots.
The above list takes all day Saturday

OR -

I can buy them on EBAY for the exact same price - 1.00 per pound.
Five or six days later with no effort on my part, I find them setting on my front porch at a delivered cost of $1.16 per pound. They are already in neat, clean, pot ready ingots. All I have to do is drop them in the pot and cast bullets.

Seems like an easy choice to me.

[Doby45]

WHY?

I buy all my lead from EBAY.

Because we have awesome vendors on THIS site that sell an excellent product and support the site in turn. Now if someone here doesn't sell something we want we look elsewhere but we TRY to support our own.

[taminsong]

+1 on doby45, and besides, I trust more the members here who sells their wares compared to the ones in ebay.

[biker_trash_1340]

I was looking at ebay and saw a someone selling lead a little over $1.00 a pound and it got me thinking how many 230gr rounds can I get from a pound of lead? I know there is so math out there that I'm not good at. Thanks

7,000 gr = 1 Pound

so...

7,000 / 230 = 30.4 boolits

(- steel clips)

or to find how much lead needed for 500 boolits

500 x 230 = 115,000 then take 115,000 / 7,000 = 16.4 lbs needed

[462]

"30.4 boolits"

I've always wondered how well those tenths-of-a-boolit shoot. Reckon if you have enough of them you could re-melt them and start over.

[geargnasher]

Hey 462, you have to line the boxes up end-to-end so the tenths can all crowd in together!

If you line up five boxes of 30, you'll have to extra whole boolits on the end :2gunsfiring_v1: That makes three 50-round boxes plus two. If your casting reject rate is only 1.5%, you'll break even!

Gear

[waksupi]

The problem with buying off Ebay, eventually, you WILL get a batch that has zinc in it.

[tayous1]

So who is good to buy from on this site? I would much rather buy from a vendor here then ebay.

[imashooter2]

WHY?

Seems like an easy choice to me.

As long as you don't care who melted it or what he melted, you'll be fine. [smilie=1:

[linotype]

"7,000 / 230 = 30.4 boolits"

I save up all the "point" amounts to make smaller bullets or to fill in hollow points when I need to. :smile:

[jhrosier]

Here you go:
http://images52.fotki.com/v643/photos/5/590147/4595648/boolitwt2-vi.jpg

Jack

[gray wolf]

Questions like this depress me

[mdi]

Buying lead on ebay? I do, but don't put a lot of stock in what I get. Most headings for lead is "Soft lead for sinkers, bullets". What's that? If I get one of these I just put it in my "Range Lead" pile. I once received an empty box in the mail (with a note to "file a claim" and once a half full box. I got in touch with the one vendor and was told "you should have bought insurance". On his feedback for me he said I was "too cheap to buy insurance". So far it's a gamble; don't know what you'll get and even if you'll get it...

BTW; on this forum are vendors that will tell you exactly what they are selling and pack it well enough to arrive in one piece.

[montana_charlie]

Questions like this depress me
I know what you are saying ...

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CM

[DJ1]

7000 grains in a pound/bullet weight=answer

[waksupi]

So who is good to buy from on this site? I would much rather buy from a vendor here then ebay.

Try Rotometals, their ad is on the top of this page.