I agree with everything you said above, but look at it from a different perspective. I'm a hunter, or trying to be. Shooting at targets is just a step in setting up my rifle. I'm currently setting up a Trophy Hunter 116 XP in 30-06. Completely standard except a walnut stock. First time I've ever done that, and I think I've done everything possible wrong once and then had to fix it. When I get to the point that it's making a series of holes close together, the hard part will be done. The holes are in a different place with each different load. That means I have to make those sets of holes with each cartridge or load I am considering. Then I'll pick the cartridge I want to use.
At that point I'll have a bunch of clusters, hopefully small ones. I think it's perfectly reasonable to be proud, or just want to share, that achievement. By telling others what you did to get to that point you make their task a bit easier.
The very final step, which is about a tenth of a percent of the work, is to turn the scope adjustments knobs to move the pattern over the center. I've heard people say they only shoot once to confirm that. They don't have to shoot more if they already know they're shooting a half-inch circle. I expect to shoot a complete group of five. Once I have everything adjusted I don't expect to shoot from the bench again until next year.
Then I have to shoot a lot more from all the different shooting positions to make sure I can actually hit a kill zone. But at that point I'm not testing the rifle. Just the hunter.
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