I was wondering about the rifle/pistol thing last night too. I was pretty sure he was talking about a rifle but a couple of people said pistol & weren't called on it. They make both a rifle and a pistol with the same name:
Cabelas Link
Seems like there was some discussion about the max loading that is published now in another thread about a year or 2 ago. The pistol is 10-20gr and the rifle is 10-25gr. Table at end of last page
Here
The manual that came with my Crocket .32 rifle listed the max load much higher, I'll hafta dig it out (along with some chrono work that I did with the gun) to see what it said.
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