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Message: <blockquote data-quote="358norma" data-source="post: 1652956" data-attributes="member: 10178">Fishfurlife, what bullet weight are you wanting to shoot? If your buddy does much barrel work have him look for a BR shooter that has a 6PPC that is worn out for them. You may be able to pick up a good cutom barrel really worth the money. A barrel that is worn out for a BR shooter wont shoot in the .2's any more, but will make a 1/2 inch gun with plenty of barrel life in it for most shooters. The PPC chamber will clean up when you put a 243 reamer in it. Bad side of that is most are going to be slow twist rates, 1-12ish for light bullets. Big green's barrels have not been that great for the last few years. I know some good shooter's having lots of issues with Remingtons barrels not shooting worth a flip. As far as seating your bullets out, just work the loads up. The biggest issue is sticking a bullet in the lands and trying to unload the gun. The bullet may stick in the barrel and you have an action full of powder, a pain in the behind. I usually let the magazine set my COL, because I want it to feed through the mag. Have you bedded the action? Floated the barrel? Do you know your optics are holding up? Just some more variables in the mix.</blockquote>