I won't be fooling with it as I value quick ignition, and since the conversion kit isn't"approved"....mebbe some one will tell me BH is full of it and the kit will work fine.

Is this stuff sold as a pound?

A pound is a pound, 16 ounces, not 10....mebbe saxman did get ripped off.

Or is it sold as a pound eqivalent?

Ya know, a "pounds worth" by volume. That would allow it to weigh less that 7000 grains, but still yeild 7000 grains worth of boom.......

The size of the powder bottles is on purpose, and it's got to do with HAZMAT and rapidly combustable materials. The same volume of powder is far more dangerous in a more confined space, and some Einstein somewhere decided how much extra room in the bottles is "safer". The same reason it comes in mostly plastic bottles. The burn rate of the plastic is slower than the old cardboard canisters when exposed to an outside ignition source, and the plastic offers a slow"burn" over an "explosion" when compared to metal cans......

Thank OSHA for most of it.....you are safer now.