So if I'm reading this right.....basically QL is like a recipe of sorts, in other words say I wanted to use a certain bullet and cant find no manuals that listed a certain powder I also wanted to try then you could punch the questions/numbers into the QL program and it should give me answers.
Like for instance (just an example) say I wanted to use a lost river 180 grain bullet and Retumbo powder in my 30/378 Weatherby mag and cant find no info at all from either company or anybody else, as long as the program knows the characteristics of the bullet and powder it should give me a "recipe".????
Does that sound right Ken?
The word
recipe is misleading. QL does not
prescribe a load (neither does a manual, for that matter).
QL is a
calculator or a
simulator. It can predict what you're likely to get from whatever you plug into it, and it can predict (surprisingly closely!) what you should try, to get what you want.
Since QL isn't a gun, it can predict, for example, how much pressure and velocity you'd get from a caseful of Bullseye behind a 300-grain Sierra in a .338-.378
if the rifle didn't burst long before the pressure could get that high.
A friend asked me to check a couple of his pet loads (in two cartridges) to see whether his pressures were safe. He gave me the specs of the cartridges, the loads, and the rifles. QL indicated that his pressures were safe � which was what he wanted to know � but what really impressed him was that QL's predicted velocities were within ten feet per second of his chronograph results for one load and
right on for the other.
No one should expect that kind of agreement between QL and chronograph, of course � but those two QL "tests" show why some folks call QL "eerie," and others call it "scary."
