Interesting thread:
I do post pictures of targets & typically the post is about achieving a level of accuracy for a firearm & what I want to do with it. Perhaps it is because this is how I was taught, it all starts with having a load that's accurate enough for what your trying to do with the firearm/load combo. I was also taught to use the best possible methods to find that accuracy level. Seems kink of pointless to look for 1/2moa 10-shot groups @ 100yds with a bull bbl'd 223rem bolt action offhand. Same goes for testing target loads with pistols /revolvers and using a ransom rest or some sort of rest.
I actually like when people post pictures of what they're doing. Yes some are 7yds but that's ok with me. Perhaps that's their level of shooting or they're simply showing other shooters that everyone has to start somewhere.
I've posted these groups before trying to show other reloaders different things to look for when unexpected fliers keep showing up.
A couple years ago I bought a nib 686 and was working up loads to shoot shotgun shells @ 50ft. We set shotgun shells up instead of bowling pins and shoot them @ 50ft instead of 25ft. Same rules for bowling pins just shotgun shells for targets. Using 38spl brass and 158gr cast bullets seated long/bottom crimp groove. I came up with this load @ 50ft for shooting shotgun shells. 6-shot groups @ 50ft.
So when I started playing around with 357 brass and looking for plinking loads I kept getting those groups pictured above, 4 or 5 shots touching and fliers. I was using a 110gr wc bullet in those 357 cases that had a short seating depth. Little neck tension couple with 357 brass that was all over the place. Anywhere from once fired to brass that looked like the puppy played with them for a week or 2. Ended up tossing most of the brass and buying 2000 new pieces of 357from starline. Needless to say the groups shrank to bughole with the new brass.
More targets was looking for plinking loads for a beater 44mag/629. Wanted something that would do 1 1/2" @ 25yds. 1 1/2" groups @ 25yds in more that reasonable for a plinking load. 1" groups @ 25yds seems to be the gold standard. Anyway it didn't take long to find a couple loads that would do 1 1/2" groups @ 25yds. 13 of them actually
Note the 4 or 5 shots touching and the fliers. Time to go thru the 44mag brass and cull a bunch of it.
Different targets posted for different reasons. Some find the info useful, others not so much.