I am shooting a bolt gun, had several decent 5/8 or 3/4 inch 4 shot groups with a couple diff powders.... Figured I'd tweak the load and seat bullets out just shy of the lands MIsTAKE = they opened up to 3 and 4 inches,,,, seated bullets back in (240SMK) at 2.195" groups shrunk back 5/8".
I beleive that it has to do with the voulme of the case,, the load is closer to 80 op 90 percent full at that length. Fwiw am using 9.5 gr of 296, 4227 works good, just using up some of this old stuff.
Give it a try nothing to loose
Jim
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