Reduced load stability

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A barrel with 1-7" twist is needed to stabilize the long for caliber high BC bullets, and a 1-10" twist will stabilize more conventionally shaped bullets. But if I want to shoot the conventional bullets in a fast twist barrel, if I reduce the velocity to get the same rotations per second, will the bullet be stable and not come apart due to excess spin forces?
 
A barrel with 1-7" twist is needed to stabilize the long for caliber high BC bullets, and a 1-10" twist will stabilize more conventionally shaped bullets. But if I want to shoot the conventional bullets in a fast twist barrel, if I reduce the velocity to get the same rotations per second, will the bullet be stable and not come apart due to excess spin forces?
@Ray B
The rotations will remain the same for a given twist unfortunately
 

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