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Shane, is your rifle new enough to have a deep cut rifled barrel or is it a microgroove?? Sizing is the critical key if micro groove. The Ballard style rifling is a lot more forgiving of sizing as it was the original lead bullet,blackpowder rifling. It sounds like the slug WAS "skidding".