It has always puzzled me why some insist on turning a 45-70 into a sub-.458 Winchester. A pal with a scoped Ruger #3 carbine used to shoot 56 grs of 3031 with 500 gr jacketed bullets. Why? Because the book said he could. Recoil was brutal, to say the least.
At the same time, I was shooting 36 grs of 3031 with a 420 gr cast bullet from my Browning '86 rifle and took two moose with that load. If I needed more, you couldn't prove it by the moose. Bigger is not necessarily better.
I have no idea what the velocity is of any of my reloads. I recently sold my chronograph as it's only been out of the box twice in the last 12 years - once to prove it worked, second time to prove that the loading manuals and ammo companies lie.
I've never understood the obsession with velocity, beyond curiosity. Playing with buffalo rifles and using a gadget like a chronograph just doesn't add up - for me.
By the time I pack up ammo, guns, cleaning gear, spotting scope, targets, tape, stapler, shooting glasses, etc. I feel like I'm running away from home. Some of this gets moved from one shooting bag to another, depending upon what I'm shooting, and some items get forgotten in the shuffle. Packing and setting up a chrono is just one more thing I can do without.