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I read the article and disagree he proved anything except the methods in his rifle worked for him. Again, another totally custom rifle...

In the video, his seating depth ladder demonstrated a best 3 shot group (load #1) of 0.183" and a worst three shot group (load #3) of...

Long winded videos are never good in most forum discussions due to time. I cant watch it all right now. What is the seating depth...

Well.......I am going to answer your last question first. You ask about the need for personal attacks. When I first started reading your...

Webster says empirical means: 1. : originating in or based on observation or experience. empirical data. 2. : relying on experience or...

Actually, the name comes from the video gaming tag used when I played X-Box with my teenage sons in the 2000s and meant "game master" as...

"Science" is testable, repeatable, verifiable. I don't remember anything about the why. Nevertheless, I have no idea why one powder...

The empirical evidence really is how your firearm reacts to handloading. The variables to my firearm are completely different. I don't...

NONE, don't drive yourself looney worrying about this technical of a question in my opinion while hunting..that little un-noticed breeze...

The first local guy has known me a long time. He knew I was going to have a barrel fluted. When he told me he was going to give it a...

Is there a way to tell when an anecdotal becomes empirical?

I think it's been more than forty-five years since I used a slide rule. I found it in the drawer the other day.

And to think a lot of us learned by reading manuals and through trial and error. Very ancient and archaic. We didn't even have...

For the purposes of the said rifle in my post above, I’m 100% fine with the precision as-is. I don’t think placing back to back shots on...

Thank you, Phil. I used Pac-Nor one time. Their fluting didn't take enough off to make much difference. I am going to gamble on a new...