Grouse45
So now you profess to know more than the professionals. The people at CVA and Hodgdon are well aware of the legal ramifications of disseminating false or misleading information and will avoid doing so at all costs.. I guarantee that any information they provided me is backed up by documentation of extensive tests they have preformed that substantiate what they say. I have toured Hodgdon's test facility and their people have forgot more about guns, bullets and powder than you, I or most of the members of this forum collectivly will ever know. In that firearms are inherently dangerous I wholeheartedly believe that all testing should be done by those who have the knowledge and equipment do do so. Not egotistical amateurs who believe that they are always right and those who disagree with them are dead wrong.
WCW You are aware that manufactures also do their own independant testing of their equipment and post their own load recommendations for a given firearm.
These recommendations are done in test facilties for the companies and/or by independent testers approved by the companines. And, as you say these companies are surely and certainly not going to post information that might end with them in court some place.
Certainly if you follow Hodgdon's recommendations or the Manufactures recommendations you and everyone else that follows those recommendations are most certainly somewhat safe, but no matter there is always a possibility of the opposite everytime you pull the trigger on ANY weapon.