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10 years 4 months ago #40404
by jtallen83
Nightforce, I take it this program gives you a good starting point then you mess with the tenths to match your barrel harmonics?
There are too many numbers for me to really study the info close, I hate math, how does it decide what powder or bullet would be optimum? Can it give you a good bullet for a specific powder? These days you don't always find the powder your looking for, same with bullets although that seems to be getting better, for better than a year the only way to get 175 SMK's was to get gouged.
The only good thing to come from the shortage was it caused me to work up loads for my rifle with several different components.
And lastly, how much is the program and do I have to do much math to use it?
There are too many numbers for me to really study the info close, I hate math, how does it decide what powder or bullet would be optimum? Can it give you a good bullet for a specific powder? These days you don't always find the powder your looking for, same with bullets although that seems to be getting better, for better than a year the only way to get 175 SMK's was to get gouged.
The only good thing to come from the shortage was it caused me to work up loads for my rifle with several different components.
And lastly, how much is the program and do I have to do much math to use it?
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10 years 4 months ago #40406
by NightForce
JT,
It looks a lot more completed than it is.
The program allows you to use different powders, bullet styles and weights etc. These are library's which are included with the software. The software already knows the cartridge data and it uses its formulas to determine the burn rates of powder then correlates these with pressure curves, all in the background.
Ideally what I look for is a powder capacity about 98% to 102% of the case capacity. This allows for a compressed load and the software calculates the burn efficiency. The videos below probably describe the software's capabilities better than I can.
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jtallen83 wrote: Nightforce, I take it this program gives you a good starting point then you mess with the tenths to match your barrel harmonics?
There are too many numbers for me to really study the info close, I hate math, how does it decide what powder or bullet would be optimum? Can it give you a good bullet for a specific powder? These days you don't always find the powder your looking for, same with bullets although that seems to be getting better, for better than a year the only way to get 175 SMK's was to get gouged.
The only good thing to come from the shortage was it caused me to work up loads for my rifle with several different components.
And lastly, how much is the program and do I have to do much math to use it?
JT,
It looks a lot more completed than it is.
The program allows you to use different powders, bullet styles and weights etc. These are library's which are included with the software. The software already knows the cartridge data and it uses its formulas to determine the burn rates of powder then correlates these with pressure curves, all in the background.
Ideally what I look for is a powder capacity about 98% to 102% of the case capacity. This allows for a compressed load and the software calculates the burn efficiency. The videos below probably describe the software's capabilities better than I can.
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