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Of these three indicators of performance,
� manuals
� QuickLOAD
� your rifle
� which one is likely to be the most reliable in predicting the performance of a given load in another rifle that's yet to be tested?
What's your guess?
"Good enough" isn't.
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I'm inclined to say that it would be my rifle. ??
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Well, let's see �
� Each manual typically uses one rifle for testing its loads in each cartridge.
� Your rifle is one rifle.
� QuickLOAD's equations are distillations of data from thousands of rifles. IOW, averages upon averages upon averages upon averages �
So which one is most likely to tell you what you can most likely expect from another rifle that no one has tested yet?
"Good enough" isn't.
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It's not a guess...QuickLoad. IF one knows how to use it.
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Quickload in combination with Chris Long's barrel timing model will most of the time get pretty close with bottleneck cartridges. Especially if I can get an accurate measurement of the "other" rifle's chamber (throat in particular). JMO, Dutch.
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Averages are averages. The best indicator of a load is the paper it punched holes in. If a load shoots well in one rifle then there is an excellent chance it shoots well in others. I have several 30-06s and I have found loads that shoot well in all of them and they run the gauntlet from 2 groove springfield barrels to custom to commercial barrels.
I'm going with the terminal ballistics on this one.
Alan
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