My friend, I understand what you are saying about lawyers and reloading manuals. A couple of things to think about. First, Some powders are actually more potent today than they were 10-20+ years ago. Alliant 2400 being a prime example. With that in mind, I am willing to bet that some other powders have followed suit. Second, chambers very from gun to gun. I have three Rugers in 44 Mag. All three of them like different loads AND all three of them have different “maximums.” The 6mm TCU is another great example of a chambering that has very inconsistent loading data which varies greatly. Just open your TC reloading manual and see for yourself. I am not trying to be rude, but just like you told me on my thread/question involving reloading 22 LR, ask yourself if it is worth it. If your goal is more oomph, buy a bigger gun. IMHO, like you have told me before, shoot what the gun likes and don’t worry about the rest of it. However, your comment of “So...to each his own: but BE SAFE” is hypocritical and not welcomed. It offended me. Go back and reread your response on my thread.
22 LR post Again, primers are the most heated/debated thread I have seen. I know of one person who has been kicked of a sight because of a primer debate. The debate here was not pretty…
We have a long range shooter on this forum that uses standard primers in mag cases. I use mag primers in all of my revolver rounds. (Why, because I don’t feel like buying more than one primer and I have found loads that work.) I can even argue that WLP’s are mag primers. I haven’t brought it up because I do not have any tangible evidence to back up my statement, just verbal conversations from manufactures. The last time I brought it up, here, I was told I didn’t know what I was talking about and leave it to the professionals.
To all the rest, I apologies for being the cautious one.
“And also, Duayne, I subscribe to the old adage: NEVER say Never.”
That’s D-u-a-n-e…
Gregg, you ask a question on a public forum. Not a private, a public forum. If don’t like an answer you received on your thread please don’t be offended. You asked a question, I gave it a response. I actually answered your question with pertinent information pertaining to your question. I don’t care how long you have been reloading, no offence, it only takes one delusion of grandeur, or lack of insight, for an oops to happen. It takes more than a coronagraph, visual primer inspection, and judgment of how much resistance a case has when being extracted from a chamber to tell if it is in the pressure limitations of a firearm. Our reloading books tell use to look for these indications, but only in the parameters of the data listed. Hence my response of we don’t have the equipment at our disposal to test your question at hand. Your question was lugubrious of its parameters and intentions, which prompted my response which was of caution.
If you are really interested in doing research in this topic, go back and reread my second paragraph in my second post in this tread. There was tangible first hand data for you to work with. I didn’t not have a chrony at the time I was doing my load data for that gun, so that is the best information I can give you.
I have a life and I am done wasting my time with this thread. (If I didn’t have the day off I wouldn’t have been able to type this.) I am not going to look at this thread anymore. If you want to talk to me any more about it you can call me, you have my number. With that being said, I will not defame your good name behind your back. So if you have a problem with what I have said call me or drop it.