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That’s at 100 yards?  I’d be happy with that group out of some of my scoped bolt action rifles!

BTW, I’m late to this conversation, so wanted to get in my 2 cents about slugging barrels.  I believe it was in Wal-Mart I picked up some pure lead “bullet weights” that are, in fact fishing weights shaped like a truncated cone with a hole down the center that you can push monofilament through if you’re using it for fishing weights, but obviously not useful for our application.  They come in small plastic bags hanging with the other fishing weights, so you can get whatever diameter you need to push through the barrel of your rifle.  I used them for slugging the barrel of a bolt-action benchrest rifle I was building, and they worked quite well.  That was .30 caliber, and I don’t recall if they had large enough sizes to slug a .45, but they probably do.