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Offline zacharoo

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Wheel weights for bullets
« on: November 05, 2010, 06:26:53 PM »
Found a friend that will make me bullets from ww . He will make them for me if I send him the ww's. How many lbs. of wheel weights will it take to make 500 of a say 285 gr. 45 lc  bullets? I think he is casting 270 gr. .454 dia. HP bullets.
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Re: Wheel weights for bullets
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2010, 06:42:30 PM »
Zach,

Seeing as there are 7000 grains in a pound, then 500 x 285/7000 = 20.36 pounds. 
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Re: Wheel weights for bullets
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2010, 03:55:11 AM »
Actually you will need 20.36 pounds of clean melt,  I'd say it would take at least 10% more to account for clips, and a fair amount of dross, as the WW are generally pretty dirty.
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