I guess the bee in my bonnet is that I dont like to see "barriers" against people getting enjoyment from shooting.
Granted there is no barrier preventing me from stuffing the irom with whatever I choose, just from standing on the fireing line next to certain others.
Its taken 2 years to pull my groups down from 18" to 3". The improvement is all down to experimentation and perfecting loading, I have always been capable of 3" groups over iron sights with any other guns I've used. Would the type of powder used have made a halfpenny worth of difference, I think not. So would someone using a different powder in a competition make a difference? There still plenty of smoke from other powders for those that like it, personally I prefer to hit the target.
My enjoyment has rubbed off on other members of my club and revolver shooters have tripled, one has been drawn to the dark side and gone seriously black but most just have fun.
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” :- Prince Philip said after Dunblane