Missing in action

I will admit that when it comes to load development and handloading rifle ammunition, I am a hopeless case who cannot help himself.

Aside from personal requirements, it is of course necessary to illustrate and validate what you have written on the subject. The other issue is that every barrel is a law unto itself, which is where the questions start. Why does one particular barrel shoot better than another? As a great Benchrest rifleman once stressed, there is absolutely no way of knowing but to load up and shoot.

After reloading and testing ammunition for more than 40 years, I have never read a set of rules to test ammunition of any sort, certainly not in the civilian context. So, how can you criticise another point of view when there are no rules to abide by? Perhaps the only advice came from the NRA in America that proposed you should shoot five times five-shot groups and average