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Not going to argue with your pictures or your personal method of solving your rifle's firing pin clearance issue. For myself, if I can't shoot a normal load without cratering the primers I find that problematic. Like you, I've been there and did that. I have had primers that looked exactly like the OP's. Following a bolt bush job, shooting the exact same brass/bullets/powder charge, the cratering is gone. I find it foolish to have to tune my load to cover up a botched machining job on the rifle bolt. The OP's next problem will likely be pierced primers if he doesn't have the real problem corrected. I've been there and did that also. Then there is the cost of buying a complete PTG bolt assembly and gettting sub par quality. Have you priced one of those? At their prices I find it unacceptable to have cratered primers on a safe charge weight load. Nuff said.