I heard boltfluter can twist your barrel and your bolt to make the twist faster. I have seen his work and though I admit I do not understand it, nor have I used it, it sure does look great. By the looks of it to me, the deep outside twist tightens the bore, imparting a hammered rifling to the inside of the bore. Swaging the inside after twisting, using a stainless button and a mix of kroil and JB paste will then smooth any imperfections, remove the dreaded carbon donut and allow you to moly coat your hybrid VLD with danzac which makes the bore less apt to collect moisture and corrode when you store it underground. If you also coat your cartridges in templac it will allow them to be stored longer, and will assure that your bullets do not become welded to the inside of your cases, which, if it happens, causes irregularity and vertical strings of the vapor trail you can see to mark your shots. I always coat my brass in templac after loading, so I can avoid that welding action. I also seat my bullets with only .0002 neck tension using a modified and honed (I use a chicken bone and JB paste to hone) bushing. The templac also serves to anneal my case WHILE firing, which saves me a step later. I am all about efficiency.
when cooking the bullet with a torch, it is best not to use a loaded cartridge to hold it. I hold the tip in my finger and heat the bottom of the bullet. When it gets too hot to hold I simply drop it in water. Of course everyone has a different sensitivity to heat, so YMMV. Just make sure you do not hold the base and heat the tip, as this will cause bullet droop, which will result in fishtailing of the bullet. I might mention that this was the original OP's issue. Surprised no one here diagnosed it earlier.
That's the ticket..
