Tom has done some good research. I disagree that he is an idiot. He has written a lot of stuff that I disagree with, but he has done some good research, too. He is the one who took a load of shot from a shotshell, painted three layers different colors, loaded it back in the shell and fired it into a tank of water. The shot was recovered from the bottom of the tank and segregated by colors. The bottommost layer was much more misshapen than the two layers above it, proving undoubtedly the results of setback on ignition. Many people have argued that phenomenon, and claim that all the shot in the load are misshapen equally. Not so. Tom proved it. I called and talked with him about that research some years ago.
Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
SRH
