Craig, in the specific case of your gun, "hogwash" may not be too strong. Your gun's service pressure is not far off American SAAMI standards with an 850 bar proof. 650 bar service is right around 10,800 psi, so you don't have much to worry about at all with reloads, even building in a reasonable safety cushion.
Note: 650 bar does not come out to 10,800 psi if you use the 14.5x formula to get psi. However, per the Birmingham Proof House, under that system, those were bars as measured with the old lead crusher system. They converted to psi equivalent to get the 10,800 figure.
Last edited by L. Brown; 04/12/13 10:36 AM.
