Reeder Custom Guns - If you spent your formative gun years in the 70s and 80s

Ray
If you spent your formative gun years in the 70s and 80s
Monday, January 21, 2019, 10:39

you read the velocity tables in the Gun Digest and the gun magazines extolling the virtues of magnum rounds and the velocities they were able to attain. That's what I zeroed in on, anyway. Chronographs started to become available in the mid 80s and more affordable in the 90s which is when I got my first one. I was very interested in chronographing loads until I flinched a shot from my 500 L through the guts of my chronograph. I still haven't replaced it and am now content to hope that shot placement trumps velocity anyway.

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