'gam,
The "troubles" you cite are squarely commensurate with your "experience" and that'd be an aged trend.
It takes some doing,to pull enough spark plugs on the WSM,to slow it to '06 case capacity velocities. Nawwwwww....it takes more than that.
I doubt you could reliably get the pointed end of a bullet,facing out of the casemouth..................
