Reeder Custom Guns - both Blake and huey are right. On a gun with a

Gary Reeder
both Blake and huey are right. On a gun with a
Sunday, January 20, 2019, 10:44

barrel cylinder gap where it should be in the .002 to .003 you will lose or gain about 35 fps per inch. If your barrel cylinder gap is .006 to .010 which is not unusual in a factory gun, you will lose up to 250 fps period, no matter what your barrel length is.

One thing I do disagree with the rest of the answers is once I or Sean does the ballistics on a new cartridge, if the gun is accurate I don't worry about the FPS. Speed doesn't kill, accuracy does. my recommendation would be sell the chrono to a friend and enjoy shooting without worrying about the fps. I own a few guns and I have never chrono'd any of them and don't plan to. I find a load that is accurate and stay with that. Life is way too short to worry about the FPS my gun puts out.

Velocity change / barrel length. If I'm looking at - ChrisG, 2019-01-20, 09:57
- If you spent your formative gun years in the 70s and 80s - Ray, 2019-01-21, 10:39
- both Blake and huey are right. On a gun with a - Gary Reeder, 2019-01-20, 10:44
  - Chronographs are the playthings of the devil! (nm) - Drdougrx, 2019-01-20, 18:05
  - Thanks! I never have invested in a Chrono. - ChrisG, 2019-01-20, 12:29
- sounds optimistic, 25 to 35 fps is closer to what i find. - Blake, 2019-01-20, 10:19
  - I've seen some short barrels faster than the longer ones... - Huey, 2019-01-20, 10:22
    - True (nm) - ChrisG, 2019-01-20, 10:26
  - 25 to 35 fps per inch to clarify (nm) - Blake, 2019-01-20, 10:21