That is not bad advice. Some published information is starting loads and maximum loads. Some published information is just maximum loads. ALL sources that supply maximum loads only, tell the reader to start at 10% down and work up to maximum.This is the exact bad advice I was talking about. With some powders such as H110/W296 a reduced load of 10% can cause catastrophic results. Again, when your gun blows up its going to make that $50 book look like a bargin.
My gun blowing up is NEVER going to make an inadequate and incomplete manual look like a bargain, but if I was reloading from that inadequate manual and my gun blew up what then?
Both W296 and H110 are listed as pistol and shotgun powders in the Hodgdon Basic Reloading Manual. I at least, will not be loading my rifle with it.
I have read every word of what has been written, contrary to what others have done.
Some of Lee's (and others) reloading information makes NO DIFFERENTIATION between any bullets of comparable weight, all 150 grain jacketed bullets are loaded the same.
I'm reloading using the 2011 bullet from Speer, loaded for my .30-30, and my powder of choice is H4895. I already know where I'm going to start, 31.5 gr so I think I'm ok.
Sometimes I can't understand some people on the Internet, they seem to think that anonymity gives them the right to say and act any way they want. I asked a very simple question and receive a load of crap about it. But I guess that's what makes the Internet such a wonderful place, anyone can say anything, like the old-west, a shoot from the lip mentality.