So I have acquired a copy of the Lee Modern Reloading manual, to accompany my kindle version of the Lyman manual. So looking at the loads for wadcutters with bullseye, the Lee states a minimum grains of 2.7 to max 3.1. The Lyman, 3 to 3.5 grains.
Based on the Lyman manual, and recommendations in this thread I had loaded roughly 100 rounds at the 3.5 grains bullseye, and fired around 50 at the range through both my Security Six and 442. The recoil was brisker than I had remembered with the Precision Delta reman I had been shooting last time I had taken them to the range, but I put that off to not being accustomed to it after not shooting it for several months.
Now I see that those loads exceeded the max load in one manual, and in addition I noted something I had missed previously, that the Lyman manual specifically warns against using any of their listed .38 special loads in an aluminum framed revolver. Since that is the primary purpose for which I am reloading in the first place, this is concerning.
Which data should i trust? Or is all of it suspect? Or am I overthinking it?
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