I guess that was kind of my point. Looking at my logbook for November I flew 4 approaches to minima and another for to less than 400ft. The rest were all flown to what would have been acceptable for an IMC holder.
The fact is that the holder of an IR generally has one because the have a need to travel when the weather is crap and they have an aircraft capable of doing so.
The average IMCR holder is a club flyer, operating from VFR airfields in ill equipped aircraft. So to try and compare an IMCR holder to an IR holder is not smart.
I flew yesterday, no one else at my airfield did they sat and ate chips and talked flying as the weather was 'crap'........ Most of them IMCR holders.