New McGowan 10/22 barrel is damaging my bullets. Anyone have ideas?

Thanks Auggie, this seem in line with McGowan's recommendation

Years ago, I had a battery powered fish hook sharpener that worked a treat for such. It ran much slower than a Dremel tool, and thus was not prone to skipping off in a random direction.

These days I would reach for a sheet metal deburring tool and simply give the sharp edge a scrape to round it off.

Really, it takes so very little of a sharp edge to shave bits off a soft lead bullet. It takes very little material off off that edge to completely change that, too.
 
Well I found some time to fool around with this and a pretty aggressive deburring did the trick. I used a medium Dremel tool stone held in fingers and took the edge off followed by a good polish with white compound and voila!

No more lead half moons and shoots 1MOA at 100 meters with the first two ammo I tried.
Thanks all and Jerry at Mystic
 
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