Originally Posted by
Parabuteo
It did not take a season. Nothing like. It was league FTR. Experience told me how to carry out the load dev, the chrono was pure chance when the MS came out, I tried a pair to make sure the first was not showing silly figures. Oddly I had a lot of other loads that worked too....I still do....without a chrono.
The point is that people get tied up in apps, chronos, electronic targets, and usually end up going back to shooting at good old paper and either being happy with the results, or not.
My only use for a chrono has been to determine whether a rifle was over the HME limit, or to get some basic data for developing wind charts. Tried a Labradar for this purpose a while back, heap!!!
Obviously sometimes you will get issues, but often too much data fudges the picture. The next time the OP works up a load it will take less time, etc etc.
Well yes as a folksey general point shooting at paper is the acid test but not having a chrono isn't why your load turned out to have single digit ES.
This chap is trying to find out if his load would work at the distance required.
A chronograph tells him that without having to shoot at that distance.
More importantly he is contemplating going above the max load in the manual.
A chronograph is the next best thing to a pressure lab in these circumstances.
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