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Reloading
At what point are you done with load development?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stokesrjsr" data-source="post: 1563216" data-attributes="member: 108548"><p>I've used quite a few optical chronographs with as you suspect, inconsistent results. Then I moved to a Magnetospeed and found that many of the loads I had developed were much tighter than my optical chronographs led me to believe. But the magnetospeed was inefficient in that I had to develop for accuracy independent of gathering data due to barrel harmonics influenced by the magnetospeed hanging there. Then I got a prototype Lab Radar on the first test run of production and still have it now and it is the most useful piece of shooting gear I own. Many loads that my optical based chronographs indicated were two digit SDs are now low single digit SDs, like 4 fps or so. </p><p>The only problem with the Lab radar is getting the trigger sensitivity set right so that it hears your rifle and not your neighboring bench rifle. I shoot with a suppressor at public ranges often and it can be aggravating to get the trigger level set so my shots are recorded and the guy with a short barreled, braked, AR isn't polluting my data. But if I'm by myself or a few benches away from the blaster types, it works like a dream.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stokesrjsr, post: 1563216, member: 108548"] I've used quite a few optical chronographs with as you suspect, inconsistent results. Then I moved to a Magnetospeed and found that many of the loads I had developed were much tighter than my optical chronographs led me to believe. But the magnetospeed was inefficient in that I had to develop for accuracy independent of gathering data due to barrel harmonics influenced by the magnetospeed hanging there. Then I got a prototype Lab Radar on the first test run of production and still have it now and it is the most useful piece of shooting gear I own. Many loads that my optical based chronographs indicated were two digit SDs are now low single digit SDs, like 4 fps or so. The only problem with the Lab radar is getting the trigger sensitivity set right so that it hears your rifle and not your neighboring bench rifle. I shoot with a suppressor at public ranges often and it can be aggravating to get the trigger level set so my shots are recorded and the guy with a short barreled, braked, AR isn't polluting my data. But if I'm by myself or a few benches away from the blaster types, it works like a dream. [/QUOTE]
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