Now that you and Alex mentioned it, I did have some soft strike issues on CCI 450's and did change the original Borden supplied FP spring to a higher rate Gre-Tan (same issues in both actions and solved with stiffer spring). I have not revisited the Fed 205M"s since.I think most of the issues are self inflicted, head space or a week spring. I have run some very high pressure to see if I could hit the next node and again no issues....... Jim