Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Chrono, Yes or No

Absolutely. I rented a chrono a couple of times before I bought mine. I decided that it wouldn't take too many rentals to equal the price to buy one. That was 1981.

You can take all the manuals and compare and 'average' what they say BUT you never know how your barrel does, NOR the lot of 'primers' and 'powders' run w/o a chrono. You literally are shooting in the dark w/o a chrono. Many stories have been told here by different posters about people who believed their load was cooking and then got MAD to find out they were actually slow.

Now if a fellow is hunting woods or other short range situations, then speed isn't that important. If you're hunting open territory much at all, you need to know your velocities. YES, you can do a LOT of shooting at various ranges and 'figure out' your trajectory and then "extrapolate" the approximate velocity of your rifle/load.

You can SAVE time & money in components by simply using a chrono FIRST.

Jerry