the issue is whether that firearm is safe with ammunition loaded to the pressures in the cartridge for which it is designed.
Which brings us directly to the 8.3% over maximum, highly compressed load; i.e., a load beyond the pressures in the cartridge for which it was designed.
Is that 8.3% over the current published max, or the published max 8 years ago? I seem to remember hearing somebody say the published max then was higher than it is now.
I've thought of that too. I've got some loading manuals from 20 years ago with maximum loads that are three or four grains more than the updated manuals from the same source.
