But how does this type of testing actually compare to the reality of shooting game?
First sentence, "There aren't many predictive methods calibrated to actual field results or to controlled tests."
You can use theory and perform a lab test in an effort to simulate shooting game, but the only true validation is the actual results from actually shooting game over a period of time. It doesn't exist, but even if we could invent the perfect lab model, the perfect theory, the perfect controlled tests, and the perfect method to predict results.....the proof would not be in the lab results, but the proof would be in the results from the field model when you actually shoot game.
Take results of lab model tests as a way to compare particular characteristics under particular sets of circumstances. Such comparison in a lab model may or may not relate to desired effects when observing results from use in the field.
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