Maybe it's just time to pull the barrel, but a .260rem reamer, blueprint the action and just start all over...lol. The barrel is sitting in my gun closet as we speak...
Aha! Alas the .260, the original king of short action cartridges. It definitely doesn't get enough credit for what it does. I might be a bad influence if I say I would do that swap anyway?
I just dont have the reamer, still gotta build my barrel vise and action wrench to rip this thing apart, hey by the time I get done with load development on this sorry thing might be time for a barrel swap amyway