Home Forums Reloading Reloading Software Just got my QL in the mail today.

Ohhhh boy am I dangerous now. It is V3.4 and it's been interesting comparing my pet loads with the program.

I found that I've been pretty good about controlling pressures, which is good news. Some rounds I found to be very close with respect to QL's estimated velocities and my chronograph, but others are off a bit, especially in the larger cartridges. I am hoping Ken H. can help out when I get to that point. I read the post regarding the weighting factor and I think that will help some. I need to spend a little time verifying some of my prior results before I jump into that whole hog.

I also entered loading results from the manuals into QL just to check results and consistency. In most of the magnums, the manual velocities were a little higher than QL results. I don't know if it is manufacturer's bias, or conservatism in QL, or both.

What's going to get a bit expensive is discovering other powders that may produce better results than what I've been using for some rounds.

Tell the Governor, I said ouch.

I've found QL to be on the conservative side. Also, make sure you check what they are using for SAAMI/CIP pressure, and keep in mind that QL likes to keep max loads at about 90%

Thanks....I saw that.

In playing with it, the "weighting factor" seems it could have been appropriately named "Finnagle's Constant."

I have one load that I'm playing with that I may send out for public scrutiny.

You can expect some normal variations from two sources in particular:

� The data in any manual are from a single rifle, set of cases, lot of powder, etc, not the ones that you're using.

� QuickLOAD uses specific dimensions that you may not have been able to enter, because the manual doesn't specify them.