Thread: The Four Stages of Handloading Competence

Greetings,
There are an awful lot of things around now that were not dreamed of in the early 1970's, the internet being a major one. Those of us who came of age in the 1970's will remember a very different NZ to the one we now inhabit. It was a more frugal time and we had to work hard for things we wanted. Not as hard as our parents though who were mostly children of the depression as mine were. Knowledge was contained in books which you needed to read and understand. For handloading the books were load data manuals and magazines like Handloader. Today the internet has largely replaced the printed word. This, together with an expectation of instant results and a decline in critical thinking has resulted in "A new kind of stupid" as mentioned by @akaroa1.
Some, wanting loads for their rifle, will search the posts and use the first one they find. This together with some posts just parroting something they read or remembered somewhere is filled with danger.

Perhaps it would be best to finish by roughly quoting Terry Wieland.
"Competence in handloading is like driving from New York to Los Angeles. We don't all take the same route or stop at the same places but the end result is the same. We can only hope that we all arrive safely and with all body parts intact".

Regards Grandpamac.