Like Blaine, I load all my hunting rifles well off the lands, and my varmint target rifles well into the lands. Ultimate accuracy is usually found into the lands, and as long as you have time to tune to the local conditions, this works fine.
"Kissing" the lands has always been an unholy compromise that invited all the accuracy demons to ride on every bullet.
Loading off the lands tends to be far more consistent across conditions (than into the lands), and avoids the undeniable pitfalls associated with loading hunting rounds into the lands.
In hunting rifles, even with match tubes, I've never found the difference in accuracy to be more than a few tenths of a MOA. More often than not, the difference is too small to say for sure there IS a difference. A small price to pay for a load that is robust across conditions and piece of mind. FWIW, Dutch.
