their little closer vice was probably closing the bottom more than the top.
I spent a little time doing some lapping today too, that 323 mold only took the lapping in the areas where it isn't going straight to frosting.
two laps and about a minutes worth of spinning barely cleaned things up where it was out of round.
I'll have to cast with it to see what I got, then go from there.
I might try another set of handles on it too, it seems that's right where the hot spot is located.
took off in the afternoon for a bit and went down to shoot that new shotgun I been working on.
it shoots about 85-90% high like I was thinking it would, and it now works slicker than snot after some judicious filing in the right places, it also feeds shells to the lifter now that it's clean and put together properly [except for having the wrong ejector which I ain't sweating too much since I fit the 1400 ejector into the 1200 frame it's working just fine, i'll see what the new spring at the back does if it ever gets here, probably don't need it now though]
I need to fit a new recoil pad to the thing, it has a thump with the same light shells I shoot in everything else, and none of them bump back like that.
the chamber polish seems to be working nice too, I threw a good sample of steel and brass head hulls of different heights through it and they all went in and out super nice.
I swung over to the rifle range and had a nice chat with a good friend over there, he was sighting in his little S&W AR rifle his wife is gonna use on a pig hunt they go on about every year.
we had a discussion about the trajectory of the 223 round since he was working on a 25 meter sight in and a 300yd. zero. which lead to components and such.