I go to Hodgdon website and get 88gr.-98gr.Hornady 9th edition book and i get 77.9gr.-92.6gr.I've just started reloading for my Savage 110ba and obviously don't want to blow up my gun, myself or anybody nearby
Yep. And Lyman's 49th edition shows 87.0 gr to 93.5 gr of H1000 for a 250 gr Hornady #3335 in .338 Lapua Mag.
Every source of data will have slightly different numbers. So as a reloader, never go by the max of one source. Find a nice comfortable number which several sources have deemed to be safe and then work your load from there finding what's best for your rifle (which will be different from all the others).
From those three sources it looks like 88 gr to 92.6 is safe. Start around 88 gr, and load a few (or one) at loads with a 0.5 gr increment each time. Shoot them, in order... and watch each case for signs of overpressure. And that will be the max for your particular rifle.
Now... the "hottest" load won't necessarily mean the most precise. There are other tests you can do to determine which load is most in tune with your rifles harmonics.
You're new. I'm just touching a little bit of A LOT of topics. So it's good to ask questions for sure. But what I'm trying to get across is that the risk of a gun going kaboom lies less with a few grains here and there. Stay with-in a published load, and you're going to be safe.
I don't want to condone trying to push hot loads, but the biggest thing to be cautious of is having a large difference in numbers which comes more from people using the wrong powder and double charging. Those are the number one and number two situations to be cautious of. The vast majority of Kabooms come from that.
