Just as an aside, I was handed a box of factory Nosler Accubond ammo for the 9.3 last week and so out of curiosity took them to the range today to chrono them (Mondays are 'Weekly Group Therapy Sessions' for me).

On the box it says nominal MV is 2,550 fps. A 10-shot string past the chrony from my 24" barrel produced an average MV of 2,364 fps with E-S of 42 and an S-D of 15.1.

Me thinks that Nosler test barrel is a tad longer than 24" ...


It's you and the bullet, and all the rest is secondary.