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Spin Doctor

Will that barrel stabilise that bullet? Miller twist rule, corrected for speed and air. Watch it wobble.

The bullet
The barrel
The air

Default air is a cool Treasure Valley morning. Thin, hot air helps stability; sea-level winter hurts it. Air is the thing people forget when a load that was fine in August keyholes in January.

Gyroscopic stability
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0.61.0 tumbles1.31.5 full BC2.5
Twist for Sg 1.5
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Loosest twist that flies (Sg 1.0)
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Spin rate
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Sea level, 32 °F
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Every twist, this bullet

The curve is Sg against twist for this bullet, speed and air. The dot is your barrel. Green band is the comfort zone; below the red line the bullet does not fly point-first.

Miller: Sg = 30·m / (t²·d³·L·(1+L²)) with m in grains, d in inches, t and L in calibers, then × (V/2800)^⅓ × (T+460)/519 × 29.92/P. It assumes a conventional jacketed lead-core bullet; solid copper and very long plastic-tipped bullets read a touch optimistic, so give those more twist than the number says. Sg above 1.0 flies point-first; Litz puts the full-BC comfort zone at 1.5 and up. Not a substitute for shooting paper at 100.