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<blockquote data-quote="Allen Kitts" data-source="post: 3085525" data-attributes="member: 103317"><p>Knowing your velocity is just one part of an equation to getting consistent accurate loads. As many have stated if your shooting at 200-250 yards or less it won't make enough difference to justify the cost. Its just a neat toy! If your going to shoot long range it will just help you get to where you need to be considerably faster. Nothing beats going out and shooting at distance to verify your load data but the chronograph will get you there ten times faster. You pull the trigger get the data and punch it into a ballistic calculator and it gets you in the ball park right now. Will it be perfect, absolutely not but it will get you close then you have to do the work to fine tune it. BC's, velocities will all possibly be changed to get your load perfected. These numbers are general numbers and will generally need to be manipulated up and down to get you where you need to be. The only way to perfect the data it is to shoot! If you shoot a lot and develop loads for your rifles a chrono is just a great/handy tool to have. Sorry I hate to contradict others on this forum but I do not agree with the statement on the ES. If you have a large extreme spread the farther you shoot the larger the group can be. This just adds one more thing that can go wrong when making that shot at long distance. All you have to do to prove this is to punch the numbers into a ballistic calculator and see what the spread difference will do to your final solution. JMO Good Luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen Kitts, post: 3085525, member: 103317"] Knowing your velocity is just one part of an equation to getting consistent accurate loads. As many have stated if your shooting at 200-250 yards or less it won't make enough difference to justify the cost. Its just a neat toy! If your going to shoot long range it will just help you get to where you need to be considerably faster. Nothing beats going out and shooting at distance to verify your load data but the chronograph will get you there ten times faster. You pull the trigger get the data and punch it into a ballistic calculator and it gets you in the ball park right now. Will it be perfect, absolutely not but it will get you close then you have to do the work to fine tune it. BC's, velocities will all possibly be changed to get your load perfected. These numbers are general numbers and will generally need to be manipulated up and down to get you where you need to be. The only way to perfect the data it is to shoot! If you shoot a lot and develop loads for your rifles a chrono is just a great/handy tool to have. Sorry I hate to contradict others on this forum but I do not agree with the statement on the ES. If you have a large extreme spread the farther you shoot the larger the group can be. This just adds one more thing that can go wrong when making that shot at long distance. All you have to do to prove this is to punch the numbers into a ballistic calculator and see what the spread difference will do to your final solution. JMO Good Luck [/QUOTE]
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