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Now that I've examined the question a little more carefully, I can see that you are right.

I have a number of bragging targets cut out and pinned to a bulletin board, and I took a closer look at them. I had always assumed and believed that the carbon marks made by a bullet passing through a paper target were exactly equal to bullet diameter. I took some of these target cutouts down and measured them. The carbon marks appear to be just a little less than bullet diameter...not enough to make a huge difference but enough to make the outside-to-outside measurement minus bullet diameter a little optimistic. The inside-to-outside measurement would be much closer to exact.









Thanks.

And about that scope...(*ahem*). I had a VX-3 or 3i 6.5-20x40 on the rifle since I acquired it six or seven years ago. I pretty much lost confidence in the VX-3 and VX-3i last Fall and peddled every single one of them I had. I still have a VX-II on a muzzle loader and four VX-5s on some other Model 70s and a sweet little Model Seven in 6mm Remington ( I LOVE those scopes and hope they never give me reason to doubt, but I ain't married to 'em). But now I am wondering if the Leupold that used to sit on the rifle was a part of the problem, and now it would be someone else's problem. I'd rather think not. I have to say that the load I'm using in the Model 70 now is not the same one I was using before I made the change over to Burris and Sightron, so the problem could have been either the loads or the scope. I think I still have a few rounds of the old load, so I need to wring them out again and see what's what.

Old load was a 50-grain V-Max over 25.75 grains of Benchmark. New load is a 50-grain Ballistic Tip over 25.6 grains of X-Terminator.