CM.
" I don't consider it to be a problem of any kind and Kurt seems to agree with me ... if his opinion matters.
When he first saw one, he thought it had been breech seated."
Yes I remember saying that when I saw you post those pictures.
And I still will say that is the way a paper patched bullet should look like patched to bore or groove. I spend a lot of winter time developing my alloy for a new mould I get to find the alloy that will hold the nose setback so the patch rides the bore at the point like in the photo and the groove fully filled.
To come up with a alloy and patch location like in that picture is hard to come up with by just guessing. The left bullet has an alloy just a little softer than the right one from what I can see with out measuring them to check setback.
What I see in both of those bullets and that is they where seated slightly off the lands and made a slight jump, but they held very good.
You have more leeway with alloy temper for a PP bullet patched to groove diameter using alloy harder then needed then when you patch to bore or slightly under bore. A small mismatched alloy to hard or to soft patched under bore or one or two thousands over bore will show up at extended ranges.