Quickload program?

[Jtkaz]

Does anyone on here have or had used the quickload program? I debating if I want to purchase the program? Thank you

 

[JBoyette]

It's fun, it was alot of money, "not sure of current pricing" if reloading is your hobby, it's worth the hours you will sink into it

 

[Jtkaz]

They have it marked up to $150 now. I shoot some big bore rifle cartridge that are getting expensive to just play around with components and try to see what works. Especially when I'm working on building loads that shoot well out past a mile.

 

[Jtkaz]

How close was it to building a load in the program. Taking that same load to the range and getting the results it told you, you would get?

 

[JBoyette]

They have it marked up to $150 now. I shoot some big bore rifle cartridge that are getting expensive to just play around with components and try to see what works. Especially when I'm working on building loads that shoot well out past a mile.

It will give you the internal ballistics variances +/- 5% or so. But exterior performance is always unique.

 

[Jtkaz]

I'm mainly looking for a quicker way to figure out barrel harmonic and the effects of seating depth and powder charge. So I'm not burning thought allot of ammo trying to get a good group sorted out.

 

[JBoyette]

I'm mainly looking for a quicker way to figure out barrel harmonic and the effects of seating depth and powder charge. So I'm not burning thought allot of ammo trying to get a good group sorted out.

I get it, it will help, but I think you will have a percentage of error, because the program is not real results.

John

 

[Jtkaz]

That's true, well even if it helps some when my reloads cost me $3 a piece and a new barrel every 1000 or so rounds. I'm sure it will pay for it's self. Thank you for the insight.

 

[Toprudder]

I bought it mainly for straight walled pistol calibers, which it is not very accurate at predicting results (it was known for not working well with straight-wall cartridges). I have not upgraded it in a few years, maybe there have been fixes for it, I don't know. Most guys that use it for rifle cartridges say it helps them. It does get me in the ballpark, and once I get a baseline with a real load, I can make adjustments in the program to make better predictions.

IMHO, there will never be a good substitute for starting low and working up. I will take real world results over theoretical predictions any day.

 

[nbkky71]

While I do own and use QuickLoad, I think that it could definitely use a facelift. Another free alternative is Gordon's Reloading Tool.

start [Gordons Reloading Tool Community]

www.grtools.de

Unfortunately the developer recently died, but they are still keeping the tool alive.

Addendum - GRT predicted a velocity of 2668fps for a service rifle load and when I ran it across the chrono today velocity averaged 2677fps! Pretty darn close

 

[Stateih]

I’ll make a second recommendation for GRT. Have never messed with quickload, but the help file and a few YouTube videos can get you off and running with GRT.

 

[chrishf12]

I just started playing with GRT myself.

 

[Sasquatch]

Does anyone on here have or had used the quickload program? I debating if I want to purchase the program? Thank you

If you want to be transported to 1990s software, then by all means...

I just started playing with GRT myself.

I've been using this for over a year now and Iove it. I often use the OBT tool in it to figure out nodes for loading and it has done a good job. The calculating shot group tool is fun- and I keep the screenshot along with the node. I'm now using the 'project' features for a powder/caliber combination which helps me organize. The velocity graphing tool helps to visually spot velocity nodes. All this for free.

I haven't kept up to date on what's happening with software dev on it, but it was a tragedy that Gordon died. He didn't 'open source' the software so I'm not sure if the code is available for others to modify. The one update I saw was a hack resetting the 'get the latest upgrade' requirement.