[Edward Tinker]

If you reload (and it has been years since I did myself), just use the standard, medium load from the books. Lyman, Hornady, all the books have light loads listed, medium (factory) and hot loads (max loads). There is no reason to load maxium, although I know lots of guys that think it is cool to do so. I personally have never understood how a hot load is "more" powerful than a medium load. A hot load can misfire / jam / damage your gun, while a medium (i.e factory load) load is much less likely to do so.

Keep in mind that many folks will say the parabellum will only work reliably with max loads. That I doubt, as the German gov't load is what you should be striving for, or they wouldn't have decided on that load...

Ed