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Your handloads are very light. There is no reason to expect them to hit in the same place as full power factory loads.
You can't tell anything at all by firing one shot at snow.
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They are light: they are the starting charges advised by my loading manuals. I can work them up later, but I did not want to start on a load higher than that for my first ever reloads.
As for the shot to the snow: it isn't the best diagnostic, but all the factory shots had gone pretty much where I had aimed on paper as did that shot in the snow hollow.
The idea was that if it had flown high, low, left or right, I would have at least had some idea where it had gone. The paper target on a peppered ply back-board did not give me that information: there were too many holes to discern which were which...
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