I got into reloading about 18 years ago. I started out nice and easy,read every load book I could get, got the best equipment I could afford and took my time. I started with.38 sp. and slowly worked my way up. I bought a nice 700 .308 PSS and wanted to load for it. I was in a LGS one afternoon and one of the "good ol' boys" that hung out there advised me on a load for it. I thanked him and went home and dug out my books. He was giving me a load that was 10% above maximum without even knowing anything about my particular gun.
I come to find out later he was known to burn out barrels and even had blown up 1 or 2. I learned a valuable lesson in that when in doubt, run as fast as you can away from these nimrods.
It's an execise in futility to argue with those BTDT guys.
Also, I refuse to load for anyone else and I've been asked to several times. Nope, won't do it. Peeses them off but oh well.
Regards,
Hobie