Brian in Montana
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Is it worth it? I find I'm loading enough not exactly mainstream cartridges these days that I'm often scouring the interwebs for data, and lots of it is nonsense. Any of you guys use it?
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MO Betta
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I do, it's useful. Worth the money? Not entirely sure on that, with the Gordon's Reloading Tool option being free. QL does have some projectiles that GRT doesn't currently have, and vice versa.
std7mag
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Sssssshhhhhh.....
I found a free download of QL.
Have gotten several updates since.
I use it often.
Very useful for powder/bullet combinations with the cartridges i shoot.
If the latest update has Vihtavouri 555, then i'll get it too.
I found a free download of QL.
Have gotten several updates since.
I use it often.
Very useful for powder/bullet combinations with the cartridges i shoot.
If the latest update has Vihtavouri 555, then i'll get it too.
44hunter45
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I use it all the time. I think of it as the hand loading equivalent of e-scouting.
Brian in Montana
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What is Gordon's Reloading Tool?
std7mag
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It's another prediction software.
Becoming fairly popular with the match shooting crowd from what i've been seeing on another forum.
I think it's a free download. So i may try it out & see how it compares to QL.
If QL has a quirk, it's that it lists RL26 as having highest velocity for all my cartridges.
250 Savage through 7mm Rem Mag.
Actually, i haven't looked at my wife's 223 Rem, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Becoming fairly popular with the match shooting crowd from what i've been seeing on another forum.
I think it's a free download. So i may try it out & see how it compares to QL.
If QL has a quirk, it's that it lists RL26 as having highest velocity for all my cartridges.
250 Savage through 7mm Rem Mag.
Actually, i haven't looked at my wife's 223 Rem, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Brian in Montana
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I looked into GRT last night, but I couldn't get it to run on my phone. My laptop should be in the Smithsonian, its painfully slow at times but it does have Windows 10, I think. I'm going to give that a try today.
MO Betta
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Similar to QL, if you google gordons reloading tool it'll be the first result. The original creator of the software passed away a year ago, now it's maintained by the community.
MO Betta
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It (your laptop) should run it, last I remember it wasn't resource intensive.
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I have been reloading for over 50 yrs now. Fact of life is I can open a reloading manual and know how to used the data. I can turn on this damn computer also but not so sure how to get around with it. I load hunting ammo and not really impressed with all the new components that exist today. Powder's, bullet's and primer's from the 1960's still do today what they did back then. I fool with RL-19 and 22 some but that's about the limit of new powder's for me. Well some guy's might not call them new! My favorite primers are some really old Herter primer's from the 1950's. And my favorite bullet's are still cup and core. here's the thing with this old stuff. Does the same thing it did around 1965 when I started, just shoots well and kills stuff! So much for my scientific knowledge! Sure do wish N-205 was still around but don't shoot magnums any more so don't know if I'd have a use for it! I really believe that if people simply went after reasonable accuracy in hunting rifles they wouldn't need to turn a reloading session into a science project that in truth they really don't know that much about other than, "he said"!
As for bullet's. Being a cup and core shooter, I believe the biggest advancement in bullet's was the old Speer Hot Core bullet's. That is of course personnal opinion. Any type of bullet that hit's an animal in the lower leg simply breaks the leg and the animal runs off to die on three leg's! Any bullet properly placed for the bullet's design will do more than the bullet was designed to do, imagine that! You believe a deer could survive a 50 gr Hornady SX to the brain at 30 yds from a 22 Hornet? Don't count on it!
My though about equipment and component's is that reloaders, I'm one, have shaded the vision of other reloader's and hunters to the belief that equipment and components are what kill game and they really should be up to date. But figure this out, the old mod 94 your great grandfather used to kill deer with, hold on to yourself, still kills deer today! In fact the same bow Robin Hood used so long ago also works today. The problem with the old mod 94 and Hoods bow is that they are not the latest and greatest! Imagine stuffing a round lead ball down a barrel and expecting to kill anything. The most important part of the whole thing is hunting and knowing how to use the equipment you have! Quick Load software be damned!
As for bullet's. Being a cup and core shooter, I believe the biggest advancement in bullet's was the old Speer Hot Core bullet's. That is of course personnal opinion. Any type of bullet that hit's an animal in the lower leg simply breaks the leg and the animal runs off to die on three leg's! Any bullet properly placed for the bullet's design will do more than the bullet was designed to do, imagine that! You believe a deer could survive a 50 gr Hornady SX to the brain at 30 yds from a 22 Hornet? Don't count on it!
My though about equipment and component's is that reloaders, I'm one, have shaded the vision of other reloader's and hunters to the belief that equipment and components are what kill game and they really should be up to date. But figure this out, the old mod 94 your great grandfather used to kill deer with, hold on to yourself, still kills deer today! In fact the same bow Robin Hood used so long ago also works today. The problem with the old mod 94 and Hoods bow is that they are not the latest and greatest! Imagine stuffing a round lead ball down a barrel and expecting to kill anything. The most important part of the whole thing is hunting and knowing how to use the equipment you have! Quick Load software be damned!
Good old get off my lawn Don. Don't you have some neighborhood kids to yell at? mtmuley
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Sorry, didn't mean to express an opinion that would offend anyone!
I'm not offended at all. Sure the old stuff works well. But, you are missing out on some great new stuff. mtmuley
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What makes the new stuff great other than it's new stuff and the manufacturer calls it new and improved? Something I've seen happen time and time again is people have data that has worked well all their life and then the new and improved stuff comes along anf they replace the stuff that has always worked for them. My own thought is if it works, don't fix it. I did have a problem finding data for my 6.5x-06 when I got it, couldn't find it anywhere but did find other date I figured it out from. back then there was no Quick Load either. I'd simply stepped beyond my comfort zone a bit but got it worked out.
Brian in Montana
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I got GRT downloaded and it does work on my cruddy laptop. Things have been so busy this week I haven't had the opportunity to mess around with it much, but it seems like an interesting system.
antelopedundee
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Quite often it works to use data from similar cartridges. .270 data with a 130 grain bullet would work for a 6.5-06 with a like weight bullet, but start 5% back. If you live in a no-lead state then you have to adjust to using something new. 6.5-06 and 6.5-284 data is pretty much interchangeable altho the 6.5-06 came before the 6.5-284 in popularity..
BTW words like bullets, powders, primers, etc. do not need an apostrophe unless you are using them in a possessive sense such as a bullet's sectional density or a powder's burn rate..
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