Ken and Margie Oehler stopped here for a few fast hours yesterday on their way to Vegas for this year's SHOT Show next week. KenO installed the current version of Rich Larson's superb
Ballistic Explorer (6.4.6) on my computer, so I'm warm and comfortable once more with my two all-time favorite ballistics programs � my friend Rich's Ballistic Explorer for exterior ballistics, and my friend Hartmut Br�mel's
QuickLOAD for interior ballistics.
Hartmut will no doubt have a new version of QuickLOAD at the SHOT Show. You can get Ballistic Explorer on-line direct from Rich (
www.dexadine.com) or through Oehler (
www.oehler.research.com). The latest QuickLOAD is or will soon be available from
www.neconos.com. Tell 'em that you're friends of mine, and they won't charge you more than double!
After more than thirty years of playing around with well over a dozen free and for-just-a-few-dollars ballistics programs, I find myself ready to forget all about all the others. These two suit me just fine!
If you have any interest in interior ballistics and don't use QuickLOAD, you're cheating yourself. Likewise if you have any interest in exterior ballistics and don't use Ballistic Explorer � irrespective of the many other excellent ballistics programs that you might be using. These two are incomparable experiences, not just quickie calculators � much more than a casual user ever knows about. They're the deepest and widest computer-ballistics pools that I've swum in, and they're by far the most user-friendly. Dive as deep as you like, and if you ever touch bottom, you'll notice that it's 'way down below any other such program. (I guess � I haven't touched bottom with either program yet.)
Come on in! The water's fine! No chlorine! (BYOB � bring your own babe!)
