The only really RELIABLE method of determining velocity of your handloads requires the use of a chronograph. Everything else is just a "guess".
You can extrapolate based upon what your loading manual provides for velocity data, however the results vary widely - or so has been my own experience. Based on what you provide, you might see velocities ranging from 3026 fps to 3054 fps, depending on which loading data you use (I just happened to have two manuals handy to look at).
Further, ACTUAL performance in the field can be significantly different. In one case recently, that amounted to nearly 330 fps difference than what the manual showed from as the load's velocity versus what was recorded by the chronograph.
So, I wish I'd have bought a chronograph sooner - like, when I started reloading. If you reload and don't have one, you're leaving one performance variable in the dark.
Last edited by homers brother; 08-16-2009 at 08:20 PM.
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