UPDATE yesterday evening i got home, sorted through some of these comments. Judd's comments stuck out to me the most about not measuring the lands correctly. thought to myself ima show him. jammed the case into the chamber as far as it would go. pushed the bullet into the lands as hard as i could, several times. getting ogive measurments around 2.427, 2.434 etc. loaded a eldx at book length 3.320 and thought to myself ima jam this mfer in there so hard it gonna chamber. and if shit gets fkd up ima let the smith deal with it. round chambered flawlessly. smooth as butter. Didnt even fight me. Didnt use force. And immediately i thought that wasnt supposed to happen. went look back into my notes to be certain i did indeed try to chamber the eldx and ablr at book length when the projectiles came in as all of this has turned into some weird blur over a period of i dunno, 2 weeks maybe. i certainly have. right there in black and white. So then I loaded an ablr at 3.320- again chambered flawlessly. put the oal guage back in the chamber and getting 2.6 numbers now instead of 2.4 numbers. took a fired case, put loctite in the neck, chambered it. 3.342 coal 2.641 cbto said aint no way. loaded 3 bullets 3.320 put em in the mag as i havent used the mag yet to this point, cycled flawlessly. took one colored the bullet with a sharpie, put it in a fired case and left long- just marks at the ogive. i dont know where the problem was, or what the problem was. all i know is the problem seems to be gone. and i aint complaining. I ordered a borescope so that i can see if maybe theres a piece of bur or something that is no longer touching anything. maybe it broke from all the banging the buttstock on the ground to get the bullet out of the lands all these times. i dont know. i didnt put clr down the barrel yet as the smith suggested so doubt it was a carbon ring issue.
