PS:
Two further thoughts:
� It'd probably be worlds better if SAAMI operated just one standards lab, to establish consistency in the standards and maximums for all SAAMI companies at a central source.
� Homer Powley told me in the mid-1990s that no SAAMI company had a bona fide ballistician on its staff (too much strain on the payroll), and a friend employed as a "ballistician" at one U S manufacturer confirmed Homer's statement. Without a resident ballistician for the best pertinent technical guidance, the manufacturers have only their resident technicians, sales and advertising folk, and money-managers to guide them past any worries and warnings that their insurance companies and lawyers can bring to their attention.
Inconsistency seems both understandable and inevitable with things as they are.
