The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - Pistol reloading data more variable than rifle data! Why?

**Brian Pfleuger** · April 26, 2011, 12:41 PM

I do the same thing with handgun loads that I do with rifle loads... Which is actually the opposite of what you do....

I look at several official sources and start at the LOWEST low and work toward where I want to be, rarely exceeding the highest max load published.

Admittedly, nowadays with QuickLoad for reference, published data is little more than a sanity check against Quickload predictions. So I don't necessarily follow this exact pattern anymore.

April 26, 2011, 12:41 PM	#2
Brian Pfleuger Staff Join Date: June 25, 2008 Location: Central, Southern NY, USA Posts: 14,454	I do the same thing with handgun loads that I do with rifle loads... Which is actually the opposite of what you do.... I look at several official sources and start at the LOWEST low and work toward where I want to be, rarely exceeding the highest max load published. Admittedly, nowadays with QuickLoad for reference, published data is little more than a sanity check against Quickload predictions. So I don't necessarily follow this exact pattern anymore. __________________ Still happily answering to the call-sign Peetza. --- You do not HAVE a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body. -C.S. Lewis He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose. -Jim Eliott, paraphrasing Philip Henry.