Well, I had another shoot, really crawled the rifle, had good wind conditions. Wasn't a super-extended session, had other iron I wanted to warm up, but I liked the groups, their shape and size, with no misfeeds or hangfires and only one flyer.
Three different kinds of ammo, ten rounds each, Win 36s hp, CCI 36, Win PP 42s, no bore "conditioning." The last two shot to same POA, the 36 wins an inch below. Only one missed "head shot" at 50 yards, the rest were between the eyes.
Could see the shock wave all the way to the strike on paper so I was crawling well. I think I'm going to do one last little tweak to the pin tip as shown in dave284s suggested fix and NZs. Just a teeny bit. But thanks for the suggestions. they worked.


Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.