Well, I decided to experiment with my drilling a bit more more even though it is shooting the big 293 grain PC'd greasers well!
A friend loaned me his NOE .358 mold, and the unsized the bullets weigh out to right around 236 grains, much lighter than the monsters I was shooting before! LOL
Patched up, they measured .366-.367 , so I was estatic!
The load I decided on however was a bit light I think ( 33 grains of IMR4064), with a bit of a scattered group, so I will try another 35 grains tomorrow when I chronograph the load .
That group is about 5 inches offhand at 50 yards, still minute of deer
All in all I am pretty happy with the lighter bullet, and although this was a nitro proofed rifle, I may just decide to shoot BP out of it as well.
The bloopers did get into the rifling however, and the patch was not torn when I punched it out, so that is a good thing
David