CHASING ACCURACY AND VELOCITY
“There are many factors affecting velocity: barrel length, variations in bore diameter and the little, inexplicable ʻgremlins’ that cause reloaders to mutter inaudible sentences.”
Accuracy in a rifle—even though “precision” is the word we actually should be using—is something every reloader is after. And, once we see a velocity figure published for a particular cartridge, there’s little others can do to drive that benchmark from the mind.
Comparing the data in several reloading manuals, you’ll find some rather wide variations in velocity figures, even for the same load. You’ll sometimes see significant differences in the maximum charge weight, as well as the velocity for that
