I suppose I could burn a few more since onwant this combo to work.

As to the barrel heating up, some of my smallest groups were fired st the end of a string of 6 or 9. The latest groups were shot in 15 degree temps...I was worried about letting the barrel cool to much smile

I get what you're saying, I honestly dont know if I want a rifle that cant handle 3 shots, or 5 really. The Tikkas that these replaced had no issues with similar profile barrels.

I'll start back at my original seating depth which had good and bad groups. Maybe do 3 groups out from there in .015 increments.