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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3443034, member: 76863"]Even with the same target you wouldn’t really be able to get a true comparison to comparison. Gun and ammo technology as well as the gun sights have improved over the decade so you would expect more recent shooters to have better scores. Things generally do improve, very few Olympic records are the same today as they were 30 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>If we apply this to grading the knowledge of coins, grading, how they were made etc has continued to improve over time and will continue to do so in the future. This has caused some evolution and tweaking to grading over the years and will continue to do so in the future. </p><p><br /></p><p>Grading isn’t even an apples to apples comparison as there are more grades now than there were decades ago so we are rounding things a lot less. The overall changes are no where near what some people try and say they were. Most things today would be the same as back then and a fair number would even downgrade or be details coins and that includes even the ANA slabs of the early days and all others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3443034, member: 76863"]Even with the same target you wouldn’t really be able to get a true comparison to comparison. Gun and ammo technology as well as the gun sights have improved over the decade so you would expect more recent shooters to have better scores. Things generally do improve, very few Olympic records are the same today as they were 30 years ago. If we apply this to grading the knowledge of coins, grading, how they were made etc has continued to improve over time and will continue to do so in the future. This has caused some evolution and tweaking to grading over the years and will continue to do so in the future. Grading isn’t even an apples to apples comparison as there are more grades now than there were decades ago so we are rounding things a lot less. The overall changes are no where near what some people try and say they were. Most things today would be the same as back then and a fair number would even downgrade or be details coins and that includes even the ANA slabs of the early days and all others.[/QUOTE]
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