So you have your ammo hand picked all the time and pay the premium? Should the manufacturing be constant enough that the same brand provide similar results? Seems we are providing an opportunity for unnecessary additional testing just to get "matched" ammo. Ok so they cherry pick lots for you, right? There's no effort to provide better quality ammo, just a hand picked lot.
One more response to this and I'm out. OP has no clue. He seems to think "constant manufacturing" could produce the same consistency lot after lot, day in day out ad nauseam.
This perfect ammo would be manufactured with absolutely perfect powder, priming compound and bullets made from perfectly consistent lead placed by a perfect zero-tolerance process into perfect brass.
And that perfection happens lot after lot of each and every component, day after day, year after year and yields ammo
with near-zero SD that shoots half-inch 10-shot 400-yard groups in a gale.
In which barrel? O right, we have absolutely perfect barrels that ARE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME no matter who makes it...
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Of course this is silly. If I want to chase perfect ammo, I can obsess without end over my centerfire handloads. I can buy absolutely the best brass and bullets and primers and powders and then tinker endlessly with every combination possible to see which one is best. And I find the PERFECT load. And it's PERFECT right up until I run out of one component or the other or the barrel wears and...
And OP's circle repeats... if manufacturing were better then we wouldn't have so much variation...
Pure fantasy.
Maybe this statement from OP explains a lot:
"Seems we are providing an opportunity for unnecessary additional testing just to get "matched" ammo."
It's a conspiracy, man.
I'm out.