My pistol loads are all for plinking so I pretty much make a start load, mid load and higher load (generally not max) and run them to see how they shoot and function. If accuracy is acceptable and the gun cycles I go with the lowest charge that works or somewhere between two good loads. I've found some pretty light 9mm loads that actually shoot pretty good and the brass barely goes anywhere but will all land in a small area at 4 o'clock.

not as much powder range for a pistol like a .5 grain load work up on titegroup not much to do besides try different powder and bullet combos.

I kinda suck with my pistol still, my reloads shoot better than the cheap factory stuff so I'm going with cheap to get some practice in.

bless the dessert sun I'm not too inclined to practice when it's over 100

Sorry.

They are still good for double/triple tap and mag dump practice, which is very important.

Nobody will tell you that's a bad thing! In fact since you posted that, I bet more of us will be watching for your posts in load recipe threads.

I put just as much time and effort into them both.

Reloading for me serves 2 purposes:
To make shooting cheaper and to get the most accurate ammo I can.

Who doesn't like cheaper ammo ?

Who doesn't want to hit every target he aims at ?

I want to be able to shoot more and to hit what I aim at. For me a ''good enuff'' load ain't good enuff.

The question to ask oneself is, do I shoot a pistol well enough to devote the time to development? Me? offhand? Nope. If the load goes around 3" at 25yds its good enough for my uses. Do I buy cheap bullets, for range work? yep, I like cast semi wadcutters. Conveniently both my 45acps shoot very good with the loads randomly chosen for them, a certain family member of mine can make me feel like I can't hit a barn door by shooting them into nice clovers at 25yds offhand. The Walther 9mm I had seemingly shot everything well enough some better than others of course, and my snub nose .38 shoots better than I can with those sights at any real distance. If I shot bullseye, sillouettes, or any other competition where long range and/or pin-point precision was neccesary, and shot well enough to be competitive I'd spend time on development just like a rifle, same if I hunted with pistols. For the average person shooting production semi autos or service/snub nose revolvers, the platform just doesn't have the accuracy potential or effective range to spend the time, but then you won't know til you try.

I started with Montana Gold 124 grain JHP's, .010" off the rifling, and worked up to 4.0 grains of Titegroup. It runs great out of my Glock 34.