Just for fun, how many lbs of powder have you used reloading?

SSSSSSHHHHH don't let my wife see that......Remember, there's also about 350,000 clay targets I had to pay for too....DANG, I could have bought a Mercedes AND a boat and a new house...............

Don't worry George, your secret is safe with me.
I know this hobby of ours... it's saving us a bunch of money!

And, in this excel of mine, I can also tell exactly the total cost of the rounds I've loaded... but do we really want to know that?
oh, what the heck...
My 42K rounds cost me $5,285.45 in component costs.

I’m not exactly sure on the powder, but I have loaded this many primers.

A lot less than pounds of bullets but more than the pounds of primers.

Oh-oh, you put your primers in the glass jar!
Oh, heavens to RC!

I started reloading in about 1980. Lost count on the number of pounds used at "one."

I have a metal reloading cabnit/bench on wheels every time I use a lb of powder I peal the label off and stick it to the back has now gone around both sides I would say 60/70lb most all rifle

I’m scared to even guess! Been reloading since 1973. Yikes!

I have no idea, and would be afraid to even guess. Started loading shot gun when I was 12 yrs old. Started metalic in the early 70's. There were years that I was shooting 5k + of handgun/year and some with none.

Dudedog said:

I haven't burned anywhere near as much as a lot of people but when I thought about it I have burned more than I would have just guessed off the top of my head.

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And a great question too!

I have only just started. I have saved every container that I have used so far. I thought they would be great to re-use, but clear is much better than black for screws, saves label making time.
So, under the bench are twelve one pound containers and there six on the cabinet. Eighteen pounds of smokeless gun powder seems like a lot to me.

And yet it isn't. The three H one-ten bottles won't last long with a Desert Eagle and a four fifty Bushmaster gulping them down in thirty five grain mouthfuls. One can of TAC was empty, to remind me to get more, and I am almost out of CFE two-twenty-three.

The pound of Hp-thirty eight should last a little while, but it is amazing how quickly it all gets burned up. (Forty Five Auto is my favorite.)

What fun too. I like my hobby!

Demi-human said:

And yet it isn't. The three H one-ten bottles won't last long with a Desert Eagle and a four fifty Bushmaster gulping them down in thirty five grain mouthfuls.

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When I was shooting competitive skeet, I used W296 in the .410 shells. A pound did not last long.

As a handgun powder consumer, 460 S&W Mag has a good appetite for powder as well.

I started reloading in 2015 and I've used 25.286 pounds of powder to date.

Been at it for 30+ years. These days I get six five LB jugs at a time, at least twice a year. Been doing that for the last 20 years or so. Three quarters of it is for rifle calibers though so it does not last too long. I throw my empty primer boxes into a five gallon bucket when empty and almost fill that every year and a half. Now my head hurts when thinking how much money I have spent over the years. But it WAS worth it IMHO.

22000 pounds, no not really. My best guestimate would probably be wrong thus I simply don't know.

There was a time before I started keeping written records, so this could be off by a few pounds, but approximately 65 pounds so far.

Ive been reloading again for the last 4 years, so in the last 4 years...

32# of H335
8# of 8208
4# of H4895
4# of Varget
6# of TiteGroup
2# of CFE 223
2# of CFE Pistol
4# of W296
8# of assorted 1# bottles of this or that

I shoot a fair amount of 55gr blaster ammo from my ARs, and 150gr in 308, so I use a fair amount of H335

This many.

Dudedog said:

So much from so long ago you have lost count and have no idea

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While I've only been reloading for about 9 years, I load about 12,000 rounds per year.
So honestly, I have no idea how many lbs of powder I've burned.

Hmmm. That's like asking how many gallons of beer I drank...

MDof2 said:

This many.

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GOSH!

mdi said:

Hmmm. That's like asking how many gallons of beer I drank...

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11,251 gallons and counting,,,,,

All kidding aside, since I have only been reloading for only about five years, maybe about ten pounds, all sober as Dad told me not to mix guns and alcohol (or smoking ) while handloading or shooting. WISE ADVICE TO ALL!

Started reloading in 1972 and over 46 years I have no clue how much powder I have used. I never keep a round count either but to quantify I guess a bunch, yeah, a bunch sums it up.

Ron