After doing just a basic cleaning of the bore which consists of pulling a .30 cal boresnake through a couple times to clean it the dust and such....  The bore actually looks pretty good with clean edge rifling and the throat looks good based on my naked eye. I used my micrometer to measure the bore diameter and they both measure out at .310".  Before I go buying bullets and whatnot I'm going do a real bore cleaning and slug the bore to see if that matches.

And reference "hot rodding" whilst reloading. Have no fear, I've  never been a believer in "faster is better".  In my precision shooting world, " consistent is better".  I tend to like my standard deviations to be under 10 fps and extreme spread to be under 30 if I can swing it with my assorted long range rifle loading.

My goal is to put a 10" steel plate at 200 yards, put my rear sight aperture at "2" and clean off a 5" center portion of that steel target. So, if that means I move a 220g round nose at 2000 FPS, cool. If that means I move a 175 Spitzer, which has a higher ballistic coefficient, at 1850 to get the same results, I'd prefer that because that would mean less recoil, less pressure (likely), and a longer time enjoying the rifle.