Quick Load

[Horse1]

I'm not a ballastician. I'm not writing reloading manuals. I'm not running anything on the ragged-edge of a "blow-up". My goal is generally all the velocity I can muster while maintaining good primer-pocket life. I can anneal, size, and trim til the cows come home but I haven't seen a "primer pocket bushing" as of yet so that's sort of my limiting factor.

QL predictions made with an accurate FF'd water capacity and proper bbl length coupled with a radar chrono are typically within the SD and nearly always within the ES of their prediction for me.

R22 in the 300Win and R26 in the 22-250 w/heavy bullets being a couple of glaring exceptions where QL predictions were well over actually max despite good inputs. But I know that now, I also know I don't know how to fix or adjust for that problem inside the program so I start low and work up in 1/2gn increments, just like I did before I had QL.

 

[frostop]

All very good information.

I do have GRT, I am not a computer geek, that being said I have gone through and used 338 RUM and changed the dimensions to that of a 33 Nosler. But I think that I have something entered incorrectly, I say that because the Max Published powder charges are considerably higher than what GRT is giving me. I've checked my entries a couple of times.

 

[asd9055]

All very good information.

I do have GRT, I am not a computer geek, that being said I have gone through and used 338 RUM and changed the dimensions to that of a 33 Nosler. But I think that I have something entered incorrectly, I say that because the Max Published powder charges are considerably higher than what GRT is giving me. I've checked my entries a couple of times.

You know you can always ask for help on the GRT Discord channel

 

[frostop]

How is that done?

 

[asd9055]

How is that done?

On GRT under Help, there is an option for GRT Discord

 

[frostop]

 

[Justice1327]

Well, this is not how I was using the software.
I was using it to help choose correct powders for developing wildcats based on several parent cartidges.
Measuring all known parameters as set out by QL still garnered erroneous results, which several would have been catastrophic had I actually followed what the garbage out said.
Hangfires were extremely common when using QL start loads in my 338-416 Rigby Improved. I switched to the Nosler program and discovered QL was way, way off max pressure predictions, in fact, those loads were around 15% of what a start load should have been.
Now, I am no program whiz, but that was enough for me to give it away, no amount of tweaking could come close to actual measured pressures, which were far lower than what QL was predicting and I had zero reference to compare with other than Nosler's QuichDesign program.
So, using it to compare to tested data is fine, but when you want to develop unique cartridge parameters, it is virtually useless…

Cheers.

Do you mean Neco Quick Design?

Quick Design – Computer Aided Cartridge Design | Neconos.com

www.neconos.com

I cant find anything on Nosler Quichdesign.

Thanks

 

[frostop]

I didn't realize the other Nosler Rounds were in there, I may just use the 300 Nosler as a base and create the 33 and see if that makes a difference.

 

[asd9055]

I didn't realize the other Nosler Rounds were in there, I may just use the 300 Nosler as a base and create the 33 and see if that makes a difference.

Check on GRT Discord. I bet someone created it already and posted it

 

[MagnumManiac]

Do you mean Neco Quick Design?

Quick Design – Computer Aided Cartridge Design | Neconos.com

www.neconos.com

I cant find anything on Nosler Quichdesign.

Thanks

It was 20 years ago now, program came on a 5 1/4" floppy disc. It is unsupported, so thrown away, sorry, I can't recall the name specifically. It was listed in Nosler Reloading book #11/12, that's all I remember.

Cheers.