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Awesome pay day for my youth shooting club. Took the fired brass to the recycling yard. Had 487 pounds of 22 LR brass, net the club $803.55. That will buy much needed supplies.

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Thats awesome..Was it all rimfire brass?

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Yes all 22 LR brass, it's good to recycle and get money back for the youth club

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That's a lot of 22's.


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I sure would like to know how many! Anybody have 10 or 20 long rifle brass and an accurate way to weigh them? Should be easy to figure it out.


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I'll give it a shot..Be back in a few minutes..

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OK..if they were all 22LR casings, I get 44 empty casings per ounce.

487 lbs x 16 oz = 7,792 oz x 44 cases= 342,848 casings

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600 empty per pound or 292,200 total rounds

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Better just count em to be sure.

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Hmmm

Got my weight from 22 casings at 1/2 oz on both an accirate digital gram and RCBS/Ohaus powder scale..

Shows how magnifying a small sample size can magnify errors .

Anyway.. its a hell of a lot of fired casings..;)

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I'm sure different brands of 22lr have nothing to do with the weight differences.

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Originally Posted by jk16
Hmmm

Got my weight from 22 casings at 1/2 oz on both an accirate digital gram and RCBS/Ohaus powder scale..

Shows how magnifying a small sample size can magnify errors .

Anyway.. its a hell of a lot of fired casings..;)


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Originally Posted by gemby58
600 empty per pound or 292,200 total rounds



Somewhere around 600 bricks of .22LR is a lot lead down range! Good for them!


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Was checking dims on LR brass a short while back and it is quite variable. Most US production has a case wall of .008" at the mouth and foreign manufacture runs .007". That's a ~12.5% spread in case weight on the face of it, but there are other aspects at play I did not measure.


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Originally Posted by DigitalDan
Was checking dims on LR brass a short while back and it is quite variable. Most US production has a case wall of .008" at the mouth and foreign manufacture runs .007". That's a ~12.5% spread in case weight on the face of it, but there are other aspects at play I did not measure.


I did.not check the cases I weighed ,but they had to be an even mix of CCI and SK Jagd..
Which is what I have ber shooting lately..

Its interesting as I never thought of the case weight diff before.

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This brass was all Federal Auto Match


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