Yep, common with custom barrels--some makes more so than others.
Also, it may have a shorter than standard throat. From the load you mentioned in the Speer manual, I deduced it's a 7x57. Throat dimensions can be all over the place in 7x57s, but for custom-barreled rifles, gunsmiths often use reamers with shorter throats, which give bullets less chance to tilt a little before entering the rifling.
Definitely not a short throat. The 145 Speers are the shortest bullets that it will take while maintaining a .03 jump to lands and still have an acceptable seating depth in the neck. Even at that, there’s only about a .213” grip.
