glad you figured it out. Nothing against Lee, and wasn't trying to be too tough, just what I and bunch of others on 65Grendel have found... I do use their "factory crimp" dies, they work for me for the AR loads I do.
On the 105: bear in mind Hornady has bulk powders we don't have access to, so measuring their grains of weight won't tell you much - they are "special blends" and can vary over time. But, they do at times seem to be hot, usually that has been b/c of a shorter than normal chamber in the barrel, or what they did at first was load their 105's too long of OAL for the stubby-type ogive the bullet has, result was they were jamming into lands of the chamber and shooting hot due to the +++p pressure it was all causing. After several lots went out like that at the start of the 6 Arc, they shortened the OAL to around 2.200".
Measure the OAL's of a few of them... to see if by chance you have some of the older lots.
Nowadays the 105 Black shoots almost the best for me out of several hornady loads. ES isn't worth a darn, nor the SD but at 100 yds it does ok.
You can get close to the factory loads, but with better SD/ES's, by mimicing the MV from whatever length of barrel you have. Example, for my 20" barrels (gas gun), they shoot IIRC around 2660-ish. So do a workup with Lever to try to get around that MV. It's close to a node for 20", if you can get safely up to ~2675-80 the SD/ES will be tighter but that node is fairly wide. For me, I shoot the 103's at ~29.3 Lever (depending on the lot# which is why I say work up. Lot#s MV can vary by 2-5%) so the 105 for me would be around 29.4-5 to get into that window... I don't shoot 105's very much. I like the bergers or the 103 Hdy better, but just my choice.
So depending on your barrel length there's an MV node you can find that will be close or even a bit better for the 105. Best one I had was 2688, SD 7.4 for a particular lot# of Lever I had (all gone now).
On the 105: bear in mind Hornady has bulk powders we don't have access to, so measuring their grains of weight won't tell you much - they are "special blends" and can vary over time. But, they do at times seem to be hot, usually that has been b/c of a shorter than normal chamber in the barrel, or what they did at first was load their 105's too long of OAL for the stubby-type ogive the bullet has, result was they were jamming into lands of the chamber and shooting hot due to the +++p pressure it was all causing. After several lots went out like that at the start of the 6 Arc, they shortened the OAL to around 2.200".
Measure the OAL's of a few of them... to see if by chance you have some of the older lots.
Nowadays the 105 Black shoots almost the best for me out of several hornady loads. ES isn't worth a darn, nor the SD but at 100 yds it does ok.
You can get close to the factory loads, but with better SD/ES's, by mimicing the MV from whatever length of barrel you have. Example, for my 20" barrels (gas gun), they shoot IIRC around 2660-ish. So do a workup with Lever to try to get around that MV. It's close to a node for 20", if you can get safely up to ~2675-80 the SD/ES will be tighter but that node is fairly wide. For me, I shoot the 103's at ~29.3 Lever (depending on the lot# which is why I say work up. Lot#s MV can vary by 2-5%) so the 105 for me would be around 29.4-5 to get into that window... I don't shoot 105's very much. I like the bergers or the 103 Hdy better, but just my choice.
So depending on your barrel length there's an MV node you can find that will be close or even a bit better for the 105. Best one I had was 2688, SD 7.4 for a particular lot# of Lever I had (all gone now).