Cascade1911
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Not wanting to hijack this thread: Can someone tell me my Standard Deviation for this Load? I have a questions related to the following post:
My question, at what point do you decide its a chronograph error rather than a flaw in the load be it charge, variation in case, bullet, crimp, bad primer, seating depth or a combination. I've had ten shot strings that may have had an extreme spread of 10-15 fps if I threw out the high and low that were maybe 20-30 above or below the truncated 8 round average. Something like:
1230
1222
1268
1234
1229
1224
1231
1226
1202
1223
Do I throw out the 1268 and the 1202?
I certainly would throw out a 1400 or a 1000 but where do you draw the line? I'm going from memory but the above was a .357 load I was playing with.
If you have a spreadsheet, just plug in your shot data in a list ...
1200
1250
1230
1400
1210
...
then in a cell do =STDEV(A1:A40) and you have it. What is nice is you can eyeball your data and threw out (if needed) an obvious 'error' such as the 1400 in the above list of values.
My question, at what point do you decide its a chronograph error rather than a flaw in the load be it charge, variation in case, bullet, crimp, bad primer, seating depth or a combination. I've had ten shot strings that may have had an extreme spread of 10-15 fps if I threw out the high and low that were maybe 20-30 above or below the truncated 8 round average. Something like:
1230
1222
1268
1234
1229
1224
1231
1226
1202
1223
Do I throw out the 1268 and the 1202?
I certainly would throw out a 1400 or a 1000 but where do you draw the line? I'm going from memory but the above was a .357 load I was playing with.