Originally Posted by
curioushooter
I've found that Unique is great for 200 grain bullets and PowerPistol bests it for 230s. My current favored load for "social work" is 230 grain V-crown over 8 grains of Power Pistol. Still haven't loaded up cast boolits for this! This is a stout load but not crazy. Now you're all telling me Bullseye is THE powder for 200 grain SWCs? See if I can find some! I was going to try tightgroup. Anyone have any experience?
"I have learned one important thing in 69 years of living. It is that anyone that never changes their mind on any particular subject is one who either is never learning anything else on the subject due to being hard headed, ignorant or intolerant to ever believing they could ever be wrong about something. I have formed opinions on subjects 40 years ago that I have changed over time due to learning more. sometimes learning more can either show us we are still correct or that we may be partly wrong or totally wrong about our first opinion. Learned people will change their opinion and stubborn, intolerant people wont.
As far as speaking about or on subjects we know little about, who doesn't do it. It is all around us at work, at home, at Church, at the range, or on shooting forums or anywhere people gather or are.
So he would be no different on that aspect of being human than you, me, our parents or any other person. "
I've only got 38 years of living but I recognize this as indeed a wise observation. To be fair to Cooper he did change his mind about things and generally had reasons for it. For example, he originally thought the ideal "fighting handgun" was a 1873 Colt, or at least he claimed he thought this. Like Keith he favored large diameters, but so does physics. Keith preferred revolvers and Cooper auto-pistols. The more I go I tend to agree with Keith. It's not that I don't understand their arguments, and things like capacity are just simple numbers that are easily compared 15 > 8 > 6 for example. But there are little things that Keith was really right about. He said in Sixguns that pistols tend to "hop around" in your hand when you try to shoot them rapidly. This is an unwelcome sensation for me and one I was sort of unfamiliar with until I got a 1911. I learned something here, and really knew little about large bore auto pistols before this.
The key is willingness to learn and seek the truth, which is much bigger than any person. To me the scientific process of discovery, though limited in what it can tell us, is very useful. Thankfully things in gun-world can generally be subjected to the scientific process.