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Brithunter, Ackley indeed did know what he was doing, but.....
Many of the loads listed in his book are loads given to him by others. All those loads were worked up before the days of commonly available chronographs and pressure testing machinery. And with powders from 40 years ago, or more.
I have found a number of loads in Ackley's book to be past 'hot' and well into 'downright scary'.
And I suspect the velocities listed for some cartridges are whatever the wildcatter guessed they were.
Proceed with caution.
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