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Only one way to know for sure.............One......Two....Three....
Count out 20 or so and weigh them, then weight the whole bucket, minus weight of bucket, do math. Had I seen the bucket wasn't "full", I'd have guessed 1k less. |
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It's amazing what you can find laying on the ground at the range. |
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There's an easy way to find out.
Weigh a similar bucket. Weigh 10 rounds (individually, not together) and average the weight. Weigh the full bucket, subtract the tare, and divide by the average per-round weight, and propagate your error. |
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Where did I say it was full? Weighs 117.4 pounds. |
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12.5K give or take 100
Been reading the thread about being a gun nut? |
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What do we win if we guess? That heap full of duds and $90 shipping charges to send it?
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LOL having a five gallon bucket of something implies that it is full, I can throw two rounds in a 5 gallon bucket and say I have a five gallon bucket of 40 S&W? Anyways just joshin ya, where did you get such a bucket? That isnt live round range pickups as implied is it? |
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Bragging rights and the amazing knowledge. These are not duds. Going to weigh out 10 rounds now..... |
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Weigh about 100 rounds and then divide. I bet it will give you a close answer. |
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(from the classic radio show Fibber McGee and Molly)
*Fibber is trying to figure out how man beans fit into a fishbowl to win a contest* Fibber: "I thought I would never get it done, but then I came up with a plan. I took this teacup and counted how many beans fit into it, which is 230." Molly: "Genius!" Fibber: "Yeah. I take the teacup, dump it into the fishbowl, add up the total beans which is now . . . 347 . . ." Molly: "Amazing!" Fibber: "And then I just refill the teacup like this: one, two, three . . ." |
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i am going to say 8250, based on what i feel a bag of 500 .40 looks like, that bucket looks to hold about 16 bags of 500 so there is my estimate
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Remember to find out the weight of the container and subtract it from the total weight, otherwise you're throwing off your measurement considerably. |
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Is he still working on it? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW ! |
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Help me out here, even if I completely discount the weight of the bucket (which weighs less than a box of 50) how would that throw it off considerably? |
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Thats not the answer we are looking for |
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Ok, ok.... This guy got closest. My math says it's 3584 rounds.
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cool! Good work matchlite. So ... how long to shoot it all? |
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I want a hand count. |
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I know for sure that 1900 rds of 357 SIG fills a 50 cal ammo can.
357 SIG ammo is basically the same size as .40 S&W, so I would guess that there is about 2.5 50 cal cans worth of ammo there. So my guess is 4750 rounds +/-. |
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Sure, come on over! I'll give you a box of 50 when your done! |
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that ain't right. If we guess right then we should win the entire amount shown, and it should be sent free |
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