Accuracy of the new .204s

[Catfish]

Scooterman,
I loaded up some fire form ammo awhile back, didn`t check accuracy before loading abunch. I used what the book said was max. loads of AA 2230-C with 32 and 40 grn. Hornady bullets. When I findly put them on paper I was not happy, the 32`s were groupoing abt 3 1/2 in and the 40`s abt. 2 moa. I have done a very small amout of load develpment so far, but have tried AA 2230-C and Bench Mark with 32 and 40 grn. Hornadys and 30, 35 , and 40 grn. bergers. I used brass that had been fire formed and the case mouthes squared but nothing else done to them. I was not able to get off a good 5 shot group, had 1 flier every time it semed like. I don`t know if it was case variation or me, but I was useing a 10X scope instead of my 24 or 36X but was just after a load good enough to get me by till warmer weather. I was able to get several 4 shot groups around 1/2 moa, but with the 5th shot they went up to from 3/4 moa to up over 1 moa, with 1 group at 3 moa, don`t know what happened there. Any way from what I could see is that my barrel sems to like the slower loads best with my best groups being from suggested starting loads. I`m working on brass now as I wait on the computer to do it`s thing and if it keep raining around here I may try afew more loads in the near future. Oh yes, Horn factory ammo with 32 grn. bullets grouped 1.2 moa. from my barrel with the 10X scope.