Question: Do you think that every cartridge that comes off the assembly line
is identical in every way to every other cartridge made in that batch?
If you do, then how do you explain muzzle velocity variations?
If you were to weigh every cartridge and it's components, do you think they all have the same weights?
Do you think that factory lot grading using statistical analysis
of small portions of a multi thousand cartridge run
is truly effective in determining the quality of each and every one
of those assembly line produced cartridges?
How do you explain poor results with Tenex and great results with Team?
Both are made from the same components on the same assembly line
so how does the rifle like Team and not Tenex?
Did someone at the factory screw up and use the wrong boxes
and put Tenex in the Team boxes and Team in the Tenex boxes?
Or is factory lot grading not as effective as they'd like us to believe?
Is it simply a method to increase profits by pointing to the limited testing
to justify the increased cost per cartridge?
My rifle likes Team, hates Tenex, really?
Same factory, same assembly line, same components, same technicians,
yet y'er rifle can differentiate between the two labels?
Or is it more likely that we are participating in the rimfire assembly line lottery?
Some batches are better than others. Some reek.
Ya' pays y'er money, ya' takes y'er chances, right?
For long distance shooting, you require tight muzzle velocities
and uniformly well made cartridges to obtain predictable trajectories.
Anything less and there will be vertical spread and defect caused strays.