I don't have a chrono yet. but I was wondering if someone could possibly help me out with this load.
.243 105Amax with 43.5grs of RL22.
24"bbl
thanks
.243 105Amax with 43.5grs of RL22.
24"bbl
thanks
Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
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Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wfjames22</div><div class="ubbcode-body">More than 100fps and less than 10000fps.
Need to know what length barrel to even have a swag. </div></div>
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wfjames22</div><div class="ubbcode-body">More than 100fps and less than 10000fps.
Need to know what length barrel to even have a swag. </div></div>
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Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
Sorry but there are WAY to many variables for us to just answer. And any numbers you get will be just that, a guess. Your best bet is to either buy a chronograph or find someone around you that has one (also some ranges or smiths have them to rent/loan out).
You have to understand that each and every barrel will yield different ballistics due to any number of variables. Thus taking a guess is a horribly inaccurate way to figuring MV. However and alternative method would be to work the math in reverse. To do this you would have to get out and work up drop tables on your own and then work out the equation in reverse.
Sorry but there are WAY to many variables for us to just answer. And any numbers you get will be just that, a guess. Your best bet is to either buy a chronograph or find someone around you that has one (also some ranges or smiths have them to rent/loan out).
You have to understand that each and every barrel will yield different ballistics due to any number of variables. Thus taking a guess is a horribly inaccurate way to figuring MV. However and alternative method would be to work the math in reverse. To do this you would have to get out and work up drop tables on your own and then work out the equation in reverse.
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
The Hornady book says 2800fps but I was wondering if someone out there is shooting the same load and what they were getting. I understand every gun is different.
The Hornady book says 2800fps but I was wondering if someone out there is shooting the same load and what they were getting. I understand every gun is different.
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
You could always shoot it at a known distance with known pressure, wind, temp, etc and fool with JBM's calculator until you match your dope up with a velocity.
Josh
You could always shoot it at a known distance with known pressure, wind, temp, etc and fool with JBM's calculator until you match your dope up with a velocity.
Josh
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
I am running 105 Berger VLD's with 42.0gr RL22 in a 23" and it gave me 2755fps at 58* and a DA of 1700' Hope that gives you a good idea.
I am running 105 Berger VLD's with 42.0gr RL22 in a 23" and it gave me 2755fps at 58* and a DA of 1700' Hope that gives you a good idea.
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rookie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Reloading is about attention to detail, precision and record keeping. Get yourself a chrony or find a hobby less likely to blow your head off. </div></div>
well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rookie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Reloading is about attention to detail, precision and record keeping. Get yourself a chrony or find a hobby less likely to blow your head off. </div></div>
well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game.
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: clos</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rookie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Reloading is about attention to detail, precision and record keeping. Get yourself a chrony or find a hobby less likely to blow your head off. </div></div>
well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game. </div></div>
You've only blown up four guns.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: clos</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rookie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Reloading is about attention to detail, precision and record keeping. Get yourself a chrony or find a hobby less likely to blow your head off. </div></div>
well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game. </div></div>
You've only blown up four guns.
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: clos</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rookie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Reloading is about attention to detail, precision and record keeping. Get yourself a chrony or find a hobby less likely to blow your head off. </div></div>
well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game. </div></div>
Only four in twenty years. Well that must be a record.
Really though, you have been reloading for twenty years and don't have a chronograph?!?!?! I'm not here to call BS but that just doesn't add up. Anyone who has spent two decades at a reloading bench is going to want to know what their ammo is doing and a chronograph is a BIG part of that. Not to mention that I'd guess over the past twenty years you have spent thousands of dollars on components but you haven't found you haven't found $100 bucks to through down a chrono?
We don't mind helping a brother out but we are also an educated bunch that will tell you when things don't smell right. And quite frankly your story is giving off an odor.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: clos</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rookie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Reloading is about attention to detail, precision and record keeping. Get yourself a chrony or find a hobby less likely to blow your head off. </div></div>
well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game. </div></div>
Only four in twenty years. Well that must be a record.
Really though, you have been reloading for twenty years and don't have a chronograph?!?!?! I'm not here to call BS but that just doesn't add up. Anyone who has spent two decades at a reloading bench is going to want to know what their ammo is doing and a chronograph is a BIG part of that. Not to mention that I'd guess over the past twenty years you have spent thousands of dollars on components but you haven't found you haven't found $100 bucks to through down a chrono?
We don't mind helping a brother out but we are also an educated bunch that will tell you when things don't smell right. And quite frankly your story is giving off an odor.
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
"well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game."
Goodness! So...after 20 years, blowing up <span style="font-style: italic">ONLY FOUR</span> puts you "ahead of the game?" And I had chuckled to think your intial question was so basically unsound that it came from a still green noob! (You gave us the bullet and its diameter but you didn't even say what cartridge is was being fired from; .243 W, .244 R, .240 Wea. are all common possibilities in that diameter.)
I have little such 'experience'; I've been loading since '65 and haven't damaged a thing yet and the first 30 of those years were without a chronograph. I've never shot my chronograph either!
"well after 20 yrs of reloading I have only blow up 4 guns. I think I am ahead of the game."
Goodness! So...after 20 years, blowing up <span style="font-style: italic">ONLY FOUR</span> puts you "ahead of the game?" And I had chuckled to think your intial question was so basically unsound that it came from a still green noob! (You gave us the bullet and its diameter but you didn't even say what cartridge is was being fired from; .243 W, .244 R, .240 Wea. are all common possibilities in that diameter.)
I have little such 'experience'; I've been loading since '65 and haven't damaged a thing yet and the first 30 of those years were without a chronograph. I've never shot my chronograph either!
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
It was a joke to the poster. have not blown up any guns yet. as far as not having a chrono, I have always loaded to book max, and still am till I get the chrono. never seen a need for one until the last 6 mo or so, due to the fact that I never really took reloading serious, IE just loaded 300 or so at a time and shot when I had time, a family does that. between sports and tournaments and such, for 2 boys.
It was a joke to the poster. have not blown up any guns yet. as far as not having a chrono, I have always loaded to book max, and still am till I get the chrono. never seen a need for one until the last 6 mo or so, due to the fact that I never really took reloading serious, IE just loaded 300 or so at a time and shot when I had time, a family does that. between sports and tournaments and such, for 2 boys.
Re: Any ideal on how fast this load is going?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: clos</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It was a joke to the poster. have not blown up any guns yet. as far as not having a chrono, I have always loaded to book max, and still am till I get the chrono. never seen a need for one until the last 6 mo or so, due to the fact that I never really took reloading serious, IE just loaded 300 or so at a time and shot when I had time, a family does that. between sports and tournaments and such, for 2 boys. </div></div>
Hey Clos, I'm in Frederick, about 25 miles north of the city. I just took delivery of my Shooting Chrony Beta Master this afternoon. You can join me at my shooting club and we can run your load by my machine. Got some time to go this weekend?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: clos</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It was a joke to the poster. have not blown up any guns yet. as far as not having a chrono, I have always loaded to book max, and still am till I get the chrono. never seen a need for one until the last 6 mo or so, due to the fact that I never really took reloading serious, IE just loaded 300 or so at a time and shot when I had time, a family does that. between sports and tournaments and such, for 2 boys. </div></div>
Hey Clos, I'm in Frederick, about 25 miles north of the city. I just took delivery of my Shooting Chrony Beta Master this afternoon. You can join me at my shooting club and we can run your load by my machine. Got some time to go this weekend?
