We'll have to agree to disagree. You could make that argument with people who reload and may not follow the recipes in their manuals, but if you follow the book and the rules of working up loads, you will not be way over max. There will always be exceptions, but I have never heard about or read of a reloader who was injured with a book load. Now, I am sure someone will chime in with just such a story, but they are clearly the exception, not the rule.
But Steve.....
Even if we could go out and buy all the same brand of components that were used in the published data (which in these times are nigh unto impossible), there are the variations in lots/manufacturing runs with components. Primarily powders and brass. There are also changes in the ogives of bullets from time to time. There will be times when a max powder charge, or even a charge approaching max exceeds the published velocity. And as you would well know if we are getting a velocity above the published velocity, the odds are we are over pressure.
