Gladly class. With six machines and 40 different lots of Ely ammo, we all buy a lot more Eley ammo to test so we can find the best fit for our rifles. If it were just marked as Red box or Black box we would not know enough for testing. We would be buying by the brand. Don't get me wrong. I also do lot testing because I think it works. The marketing plan is to offer many more choices to choose from from just one brand.
Concho Bill (not a real professor)
That would be valid, if you were representitive. In point of fact you are probably not. I like you, test stuff, but I buy as much, if not more through other means, i.e. call it networking. I, as well, am not probably representitive.
Maybe, just maybe, this gives buyers a nice additional tool.
Ammo buyers fall nto several groups. Some participate in group testing, group, bulk buying.....I suspect that's a pretty finite group.
Some do boots on the ground, lot testing then buying.
A big demographic, reads forums, gets frustrated, and believes in their hearts, it's a rigged game, only a select few have the inside track, etc., etc. this, I suspect, is a big population.
What prompted the test sheet intro, I do not know, but I suspect the inventory surplus at the importers is a factor in addition to the fact that, I ave been told, 1/2 of it has never been tested by a soul....nada.....nobody. Why this is, I could not fathom, but I'd guess most of it was never mentioned among various "inner circle" types.
Also, agains all the false internet BS on ammunition, thete's some pretty strong evidence that the ammo, on average, is better than ever although truly superior stuff is hard, always has been.
Factoid.....some of the absolute best ammo I ever bought over the last few years was stuff I got that was sitting on the shelf for a month or two.
Too many subscribe to way too much BS fantasy, read some of the posts on this topic, it's ridiculous.
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