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QL v3.6 just arrived and its conflicting info
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<blockquote data-quote="datsjeep" data-source="post: 395307" data-attributes="member: 23150"><p><img src="http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab145/datsjeep/reload/2895.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Ok my quickload v3.6 just arrived and I already played with it enough to make my brain hurt. Actually the program seems simple enough however one thing has me a little confused. I have always been under the impression that seating a bullet closer to the lands or increasing the cartridge length will increase preasure. </p><p> </p><p>So I start dropping in my load info to see what the program gives me. I already have some retumbo loaded up behind the 150 Bergers so I wanted to check what QL would give me for preasure and velocity. I know what the seating depth is and the OAL so I entered that info as well (2.895).</p><p> </p><p>After I got all the data I thought I would see what happens to the preasure by reducing the OAL, seating the bullets further into the case and creating a little more jump (2.695)</p><p> </p><p>To my surprise preasure increased and so did the velocity? HUH? The only thing I changed was to reduce the OAL from 2.895 to 2.695. Presure and velocity went from 56524psi 3079fps to 62591psi 3162fps. What am I missing here?</p><p> </p><p>I will post screen shots as soon as I figure out how.</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab145/datsjeep/reload/2695.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="datsjeep, post: 395307, member: 23150"] [IMG]http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab145/datsjeep/reload/2895.jpg[/IMG]Ok my quickload v3.6 just arrived and I already played with it enough to make my brain hurt. Actually the program seems simple enough however one thing has me a little confused. I have always been under the impression that seating a bullet closer to the lands or increasing the cartridge length will increase preasure. So I start dropping in my load info to see what the program gives me. I already have some retumbo loaded up behind the 150 Bergers so I wanted to check what QL would give me for preasure and velocity. I know what the seating depth is and the OAL so I entered that info as well (2.895). After I got all the data I thought I would see what happens to the preasure by reducing the OAL, seating the bullets further into the case and creating a little more jump (2.695) To my surprise preasure increased and so did the velocity? HUH? The only thing I changed was to reduce the OAL from 2.895 to 2.695. Presure and velocity went from 56524psi 3079fps to 62591psi 3162fps. What am I missing here? I will post screen shots as soon as I figure out how. [IMG]http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab145/datsjeep/reload/2695.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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