Soft Weights

[Furner]

2.50 a pound is quite steep to this shotgun reloader. I pay ~$13 for 25 pound of PREMIUM lead shot. You should be able to get crappy reclaimed shot from local trap fields or local gun stores much cheaper.

 

[ae3753]

Where do you get that? Have you ever tried to make your own pouches?

Here's a couple of links for you:
Homemade Soft Weights
Nylon Weight Pouch Fabric??

The local gun range didn't have #8 shot or larger around so I picked up some lead bullets (9mm). A little lumpy, but I'm in Texas so this seemed acceptable.

For the material I used (a mesh nylon fabric), I didn't need an industrial sewing machine.

In retrospect, I should have just bought some hard lead weights (I don't need much for where I dive locally), but it was a fun project.

 

[Furner]

careful on those 9mm bullets, if they are FMJ or other self-defense rounds, they may have sharp points which could rip thru weight pockets, BCs, wings, skin, etc.

 

[cool_hardware52]

Here's a couple of links for you:
Homemade Soft Weights
Nylon Weight Pouch Fabric??

The local gun range didn't have #8 shot or larger around so I picked up some lead bullets (9mm). A little lumpy, but I'm in Texas so this seemed acceptable.

For the material I used (a mesh nylon fabric), I didn't need an industrial sewing machine.

In retrospect, I should have just bought some hard lead weights (I don't need much for where I dive locally), but it was a fun project.

No 0 or 00 buck for reloads in Texas? No #6, #4 or #2?

What's up in Texas?

Tobin

 

[sauga]

I made a bunch of homemade 1lb mini's. They're about 2 or 3 inces square. I simply used some cordura nylon I had laying around, made little "envelopes", and filled them with #5 shot I had around the house. I heated up a pin and poked a few holes in them so they wouldn't hold air and to drain. For thread, I used upholstry thread. To figure out what sized pouch I needed to hold the given weight, I measured out the shot and poured it into a small paper bag and folded it to hold the shot in one corner and built off those measurements. I think the whole project took me an hour. I guess they may have cost me roughly $0.80 each to make. Great for trimming.

 

[alemaozinho]

I have a question reguarding shoft weights. I think they are also refered to as shot weights. The bags that they come in are sold of ebay for a fair price. The ones shipped from the dive store are expensive to ship because they are already filled and heavy. I was wondering what you put in those because I could get the bags and fill them once I got them home. Is it something like BB's?

they cost $2.25 a pound in the stores,how cheap is cheap for you? :06:

 

[av8er23]

That was all helpful info. Could i maybe use small pebbles like you get from a landscaping place and put them in socks? I am not sure sand is heavy enough by volume.

 

[sauga]

Gee, isn't sand simply small pebbles smaller? Weight under water is a function of specific gravity i.e. a specific gravity of 1 means the item is equal in weight to the water it is displacing. The more density an item has, the higher the specific gravity. I can't recall of the top of my head, but I think lead is somewhere around 11.5 and gold, really dense, around 19.5. Small pebbles wouldn't work well because they would have a specific gravity in the 1.5 to 3.5 range, meaning you would need to hang alot of socks around your waist.
Stop being cheap and buy the weights!

 

[av8er23]

I admit i am frugal but i am a college student with no money.
I cannot see paying 50 bucks for a couple of bags full of lead.

 

[sauga]

Then try going to a tire shop. They usually have tire weights that they pulled off rims prior to rebalancing a tire (new tire, that is). Those you could stuff in a sock if you really wanted to go that route.