Dougfir
Beginner
- Mar 2, 2018
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A question (or two) for all you highly experienced reloaders: I've heard many people talk about velocity as a sign of pressure issues, usually saying that velocities much higher than published for a given charge, are themselves, a pressure sign, even if there's no sign of flattened primers, cratering, extractor marks, etc.
1. Do you believe this?
2. Does it work the other way? In other words, what if you work your way up to a published, or Quick Loads max, see no obvious signs of pressure and your velocities are significantly lower than they "should" be? Do you take that to mean that you should feel comfortable going above the max load until you do get close to published velocities, or see other pressure signs?
Or, do you think that different barrels just shoot bullets at very different velocities, even if the pressures are the same?
1. Do you believe this?
2. Does it work the other way? In other words, what if you work your way up to a published, or Quick Loads max, see no obvious signs of pressure and your velocities are significantly lower than they "should" be? Do you take that to mean that you should feel comfortable going above the max load until you do get close to published velocities, or see other pressure signs?
Or, do you think that different barrels just shoot bullets at very different velocities, even if the pressures are the same?