Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

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Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by hoogle » 25 Oct 2013, 9:54 am

Hi guys,

Like has been said thousands of times, each rifle will have particular loads it likes, but there has to be some rhyme and reason to this.

It's physics after all, not magic.

I'm not saying I've got the knowledge to work it out or that it would be easy :mrgreen: , but there must be some formula to bullet weight, load and barrel twist and so on.

Anyone know of such thing, even it it's only a start?
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by grainweight » 25 Oct 2013, 11:46 am

If you can work this out, you'll be a millionaire over night :P
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by Boatman » 25 Oct 2013, 11:51 am

In theory sure, in reality no.

Too many variables.
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by Lorgar » 25 Oct 2013, 3:02 pm

hoogle wrote:...there must be some formula to bullet weight, load and barrel twist and so on...


The "and so on" is where this falls over.

The amount of possible combinations you'd be looking at would be something more like this:

Barrel length X twist X velocity X barrel weight X stock config X rifle weight X powder type X bullet weight X bullet Ogive X bullet sectional density

Lets say there were 5 of each of the things I listed above, there would be 9,765,625 possible combinations :lol:

Obviously there are more than 5 types of each of those things. Between all that (and no doubt more) options, there would be billions of combinations that would require testing.
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by Norton » 25 Oct 2013, 4:55 pm

Lorgar wrote:Barrel length X twist X velocity X barrel weight X stock config X rifle weight X powder type X bullet weight X bullet Ogive X bullet sectional density

Lets say there were 5 of each of the things I listed above, there would be 9,765,625 possible combinations :lol:


There you go hoogle, there's that "just a start" you wanted...

:lol:
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by keen » 25 Oct 2013, 6:01 pm

Lorgar wrote:Lets say there were 5 of each of the things I listed above, there would be 9,765,625 possible combinations :lol:


So lets see. I can test about 3 loads a week max so that's going to take me...

...a while.
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by Vati » 25 Oct 2013, 6:03 pm

Several "while's" I would say.
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by on_one_wheel » 25 Oct 2013, 9:31 pm

barrel twist / projectile weight ratio is indeed important. This ratio is impotrant for projectile stability. The formula is, Twist per 10" times barrel length, divide by 10. to the power of your velocity in FPS. divided by the CAL, minus the size of your socks.
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Re: Formula for matching accurate loads to rifles

Post by Aster » 26 Oct 2013, 12:45 pm

on_one_wheel wrote:The formula is, Twist per 10" times barrel length, divide by 10. to the power of your velocity in FPS. divided by the CAL, minus the size of your socks.


Then if you go to the range with mismatched socks that a whole other drama,,,
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