Quickload Software

[Brian in Montana]

Any of you guys have it? Is it worth the investment for a guy like me that just loads for a handful of hunting rifles?

 

[44hunter45]

I have it and use it every day. It's not foolproof and does not eliminate working up to hotter loads.

It really shines in finding the best powder for a specific load, based on a lot of variables. You can port your list of best powders and the modeled pressures and velocities into excel and then filter and sort them even more.

When you adjust for your bullet's length and your COAL, it will recalculate the pressures based on the new calculated working case capacity.

It has been helpful to me in these days when my favorite powders are unobtainium.

 

[std7mag]

I use it alot.
I tend to shoot some "obsolete" cartridges with powder and bullet combinations that there is no load data for.

Do be aware that Alliant has not allowed Quickload to use their Power Pro series of powders.
So powders such as Varmint, PP300MP, PP2000MR, PP4000MR are not listed.

It can also be challenging if you shoot lead bullets, to find the correct weight & profile of the bullet.

 

[44hunter45]

I use it alot.
I tend to shoot some "obsolete" cartridges with powder and bullet combinations that there is no load data for.

Do be aware that Alliant has not allowed Quickload to use their Power Pro series of powders.
So powders such as Varmint, PP300MP, PP2000MR, PP4000MR are not listed.

It can also be challenging if you shoot lead bullets, to find the correct weight & profile of the bullet.

Have you played with building your own bullet profiles? It's not too difficult. Basically you find something close and adjust the dimensions, then save it as your desired name.

You can do this with powders as well, but that is varsity level stuff to me. I've only done it when Accurate "Improved" #2. They made the mod easy by publishing all the variables you needed to make the change in QL.

 

[std7mag]

Doing profiles for cast lead bullets isn't quite so simple.
For a given bullet weight & caliber there's 100 different profiles.

 

[44hunter45]

Doing profiles for cast lead bullets isn't quite so simple.
For a given bullet weight & caliber there's 100 different profiles.

I get it. I cast for revolvers but have not gone down that road with rifles except some paper patched

 

[std7mag]

I get it. I cast for revolvers but have not gone down that road with rifles except some paper patched

Even pistol bullets.
It's surprising the number of different shapes for 45 caliber lead bullets.