Quote Originally Posted by Randy Bohannon View Post
Your load worked because it had a single digit ES and grouped well, a chronograph will tell you that faster than a season’s FTR shooting, surely?
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.