I do hope this is an appropriate forum for my question. Probably been asked before, but I'm not quite sure of how to search. Sorry, I'm a PC-idiot!

I am an old, or shall I say ex-reloader. Nowadays I simply make my own bullets and do no experimenting and load development. You know, I just sort of churn out relaods that are accurate and effective killers in my few rifles. But I do long to know a bit more about the external ballistics of my loads. I do have an own CHRONY and some mathematical aptitude, but have very limited PC knowledge. So whatever is recommended should be (i) absolutely free (ii) easy to download, install and get going on a slow Internet connection (iii) usable by an old very PC illiterate guy like myself.

And suggestions and recommendations?

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren.

Try the point blank software (free). Very easy to use and one of the best.
Here is link to there forum and it can be found on the web site. Small download and I run it on W98.
Good luck and join the forum also.



http://www.huntingnut.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=1

http://www.eskimo.com/~jbm/calculations/calculations.html

I'm not sure about downloading but it works well.

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Originally posted by Andrew McLaren:
I do hope this is an appropriate forum for my question. Probably been asked before, but I'm not quite sure of how to search. Sorry, I'm a PC-idiot!

I am an old, or shall I say ex-reloader. Nowadays I simply make my own bullets and do no experimenting and load development. You know, I just sort of churn out relaods that are accurate and effective killers in my few rifles. But I do long to know a bit more about the external ballistics of my loads. I do have an own CHRONY and some mathematical aptitude, but have very limited PC knowledge. So whatever is recommended should be (i) absolutely free (ii) easy to download, install and get going on a slow Internet connection (iii) usable by an old very PC illiterate guy like myself.

And suggestions and recommendations?

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren.

Check out this link from Steve’s pages. Point Blank may work for you, I have it on my computer although I don’t use it much. This page has a lot of links to computer programs.

http://stevespages.com/page8b.htm

Check out this free program from Norma: http://www.norma.cc/default.asp?Lang=2#
At that page, click Ballistic US

For less than twenty bucks a year (renewals are even less) you can join www.ammoguide.com and have a wealth of really fabulous firearms stuff right at your fingertips. They have over 700 cartridges there and over 17,000 loads, all of which have been verified. They have a visual comparison tool, a ballistics comparison tool, a tool to draw experimental cartridges that do not exist save for in your mind, a forum to discuss various subjects in a manner befitting polite gentlemen, a tool for generating a ballistics table, and lots of other great stuff. I like to be able to visually and ballistically compare up to eight cartridges at one time, side-by-side, in 100% scale with each other. I am a member over there under a different username, and I love it. They have a free demonstrator side, so check it out. Below is how the visual comparison tool shows up to eight cartridges side by side. Clicking on the red below the drawing will reveal oodles of things to know about each one. The drawings are accurate to 0.010 inches. Nothing at ammoguide touches your hard-drive-- it's all done on their servers. What's not to like?

Wow! There are a lot of things out there for downloading. Thanks for all who took the trouble to make the suggestions.

I can now vouch and say that PointBland downloads, installs, is easy to work with and does all I want to at present do, and some more!

Thanks again.

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

I went to huntingnut website. Where is the download?

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Originally posted by homebrewer:
I went to huntingnut website. Where is the download?

http://www.huntingnut.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3

There's a new version due out soon.