Damn, Lone, you didn't need to make it a personal quest. I know Barnes is dead, that's why the
after the comment.
I've got the 7th edition.
Go up into the narrative, not the table, and you'll see what I quoted...
"The 210-grain police load with its 1150 fps is relatively pleasant to shoot and really quite adequate for small game or varmints."
Looks like I should have read a little farther --
"Factory-claimed velocities are for an 8 3/8" barrel. Velocity developed from the 6-inch barrel is about 1000 fps. for the police load..."
So, looks like we're both right. Shave another 2" off the tube, and I could see the police load doing 965.
But let's face it, you could take one box of ammo, I could take another box of ammo, we could shoot them through identical guns, and come up with significantly different velocity figures.
What, then, really IS the correct figure?
What the factory says?
What your gun says?
What my gun says?
Or what another person finds, under completely different testing parameters?