Non - existent pressure listings?

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  • Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
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    It's economics . Publishing exact pressure reading for multiple loadings requires man hours by the respective ballistic lab staff . Time and budgets are finite . Or flipping the narrative , the more man hours expended on particular load/ cartridge , reduces the number of loads/ calibers published .

    The good news , is that every published load w/o otherwise pressure data is inherently within pressure limits .
     

    Pinecone

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    Feb 4, 2013
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    It's economics . Publishing exact pressure reading for multiple loadings requires man hours by the respective ballistic lab staff . Time and budgets are finite . Or flipping the narrative , the more man hours expended on particular load/ cartridge , reduces the number of loads/ calibers published .

    The good news , is that every published load w/o otherwise pressure data is inherently within pressure limits .

    If this is true, and most likely is, they DID take pressure measurements, and should have the info to supply.

    With modern piezo pressure sensors, there is not extra work to getting the data. Fire the round, read the chrono, read the pressure.
     

    Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
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    No ( component mfg, etc) source in recent decades is going to publish over pressure load data without copous and blatant disclaimers .
     

    outrider58

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    Jul 29, 2014
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    Here ya go devildog. This is one of my main reloading sources for Hodgdon, IMR, and Winchester.


    They cover rifle, pistol, and shotgun. It isn't perfect(impossible to list every projectile), but it's a good starting point and it does list pressures.


    https://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/rifle
     

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