First and foremost, I always make my handloads hot. It is a quirk of my nature that I believe in magnum performance in all guns. My first pistol I bought was a Ruger Super Blackhawk in 44 mag. Later, I graduated to a 44 AUTOMAG and had to make my own loads, layered loads of Bullseye, Red Dot, and 2400 powders. Talk about a kick. I never lost that zeal for the feel of a weapon going off.
After I posted my load data, I went back and compared my notes of the loads I have worked up to those published and available from other sources.
I had a terrible time working up loads. Just about everything about a published load was different. What was listed as max OAL for a particular bullet, would not chamber in my rifle. My maximum OAL on some loads was as much as 1/10 of an inch longer than the published data. As I stated earlier, the COR BON 150gr soft point rounds would not chamber in my rifle. I had to reseat the bullet to a shorter OAL due to the bullet profile. Some powder charges listed were obviously compressed charges, etc.
With all of the differences I had between the published data and what I worked up just to fit my chamber, I now see why there is significant differences between my results and the published data. They are completely different rounds.
Comment was made about recoil. I have been shooting M1 Garands for DCM competition for years using military ball. My hunting rifles are 30-06 loads. I don't feel that the recoil from them is bad, because I am used to it. Therefore, I tend to judge all recoil based on this. The HOT 180 gr load had a noticeable recoil which I deemed moderate, not at the 30-06 level but definitely lets you know it is there. Is this rough on the AR based rifle, I don't know. I know that when I blow out primers, that is not a good thing and the load must be adjusted.
Some of you will call, BS, but these are my loads for MY rifle. They work for me, but you guys may not want to shoot them from your rifles. That is one of the reasons I don't shoot anybody's reloads from my weapons but my own. and I don't offer my reloads for you to shoot in yours.