Ah my good Abilene! I admire and am actually envious of your technique! Pay no heed to the slapdash methodology of the naysayers! ( You know who you are Coffin!)
It is only through meticulous record keeping and such solid quality control that one can ensure consistency and maintain the evidentiary chain necessary for troubleshooting and debug of errant bullet holes downrange!
I will bet your lab-technique and engineer notebooks were things of beauty!
Maybe it boils down to how OCD your are. I started an Excel spreadsheet in '98 when I started shooting. Has a page for CAS matches, a page for all my reloading, and a page for every gun I own. Every round fired through each gun is logged. But I don't worry about brass.
You and I need a data analysis kaffe-klatch, mit pie! Do you like Apple?
Do you have any instrumentation such as a chrony and/or pressure device?
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Don't talk to yourself.
If you talk to yourself, don't argue.
If you argue with yourself, don't lose the argument.
And if you catch yourself going "Huh?" during the conversation, get some help!
Ah my fellow self-discussionists...
When having a discourse with mysellf, I find it useful to first identify and assign names.
Then I like to achieve a consensus amongst the voices in ones head at which point it is easier to
keep the argument on topic and maintain a civil discourse
(Damn it sean you will keep a respectful tone or I WILL Have you exorcised!) Yhs
Prof Marvel, Sean The Sheep, Bob The Builder, and Quetzlcoatl
PS: Einstein talked to himself constantly. But due to the Uncertainty Principle and the Dilation of Time theory,
he was never sure who had the last word.