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I know some shooters here have used QuickLoad software to calculate loads for the cartridges they re-load. How easy is it to use? At $152.95 its not cheap. Is it worth it if you only want it only for the 6mm ARC?
What I was wanting to use it for was building loads for the 6mm ARC using Shooters World Tactical Rifle & Match Rifle powders & possibly some Vihtavuori powders. The SW reloading guide has data for both powders for the Grendel. The Vihtavouri guide also has Grendel data. But neither one has any for the 6mm ARC yet. Does QuickLoad have these powders in its list of powders?
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Klem on the 65Grendel forum is probably the best expert on here, that I know of, for Quick load. Maybe ask him over there.
I bought QL last year but never got into it. I think you gotta love that type of thing to use it...
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I have used QuickLoad fairly extensively, including comparisons of predicted pressures against Preasure Trace and commercial pressure data.
My observations are that QL is very good for predicting velocities, but the pressure results verify that the user manual admonition to not use the pressure data is spot on.
Even starting loads 10% below can, in a few cases, result in pressures above the maximum for a cartridge. In others QuickLoad dramatically over-predicts pressure.
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Use your Google Fu or Grendel Forum Fu. I don't recall which one it was (I *think* it's the Precision), but someone over on the 6.5G Forum was told by Shooters World to just use Varget data. I don't know if it's a knock off, but they are extremely similar.
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Yup, according to the SW burn rate chart, Precision does compare to Varget. I don't have Precision powder though, but I do have Varget... bunches of it!. The chart shows SW Match comparing to AA2520, CFE223, RL-15, IMR4064 & Vihtavouri N140. The only one I don't have is the N140.
I'll probably not get QuickLoad & be cautious using SW Match. I've started ladders with 2520, CFE223 & Leverevoluton which compares to SW Tactical in burn rate. ARComp compares to Lever, I'll try it as well.
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The latest version of QL has the 6mm ARC data. The nice thing about it is that you can customize the loads.
So if you load a round and it does not match the data you can input the corrected data into it and it will recalculate the round and correct the data.
Try this site, and it's free
https://grtools.de/doku.php
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Dino, how is this grt working for you?
I did a quick load up for the 103 eldx (which it doesn't have s I tweaked the 105 Amax), and to get results (compact mode) close to mine I had to increase the case volume to 38.0 gr. I've read elsewhere that the 6.5 Grendel (another short case) fools the QL software a bit and you have to up the case volume to get it to replicate...
Anyway, this could be a useful estimating tool... have to play with it a bit more.
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I have not had much time to play with it. But like you I see it has a useful tool to help develop loads. I would not use the info as gospel but see a use for it. Until I use it some more and compare the number to results I can not give any recommendation as of date., I have enough interest that I will devote some time to testing it out. Just letting folks know it's out there, you don't see very much about it. I like the fact that they have their own forum to help support it. And it is my understanding that they listen to the input of users and make real time changes to the program. So that is a plus to making it a better product.
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Bob, give Varget a try. Just make sure you pronounce it the French way like I do (Var-zjay - rhymes with what many call the store Target). You won't win any internet velocity contests but your temp sensitivity will be about as low as it gets. I gave up 100 fps from what I was doing with 95s, but it's competing better.
And while on the subject of Quickload, if anyone has it and remembers next time they use it, I'm pulling apart a bunch of 308 I forgot I had when I sold my 308s last year and it will yield a 3/4 of a pound of Norma 202. It would be perfect for fireforming x39 cases. A starting load for ARC with 80s or 100s would be awesome. It would ease the pain of knowing the ammo could have been used to try to bump fire a POF P308 before I sold it back in the days of plenty.
