Having everything uniform as possible is critical, are you sure each charge of powder is exactly the same to 1/10th of a grain?
Are you shooting the same brand brass as well?
Flash holes and primer pockets uniformed?
Make sure case length is within .001
One thing is measuring and making sure each bullet is seated within .001 on the ogive.
Sorry to ask so many questions, don't know your hand-loading experience so throwing some small key things out there. I'm a big savage fan I understand where your coming from, not knocking on the brand. Since I re barreled one with a different brand barrel I have seen way more consistency in groups vs the factory barrels. All factory barrels do shoot well and sounds as if yours is too but I never could narrow down the same thing you are describing on the one I had. Also what distance are you shooting your groups at? Faster twist barrels with heavier grain boat tails haven't started to stabilize their flight as well at shorter distances as a slower twist barrel with say flat base bullets. One thing I have noticed too which is a huge factor in my experience is neck tension. If you got one bullet or more that you feel seating harder separate and the ones that feel consistent in seating pressure shoot those next time and see if it does better. I know inconsistency in neck tension causes nice bug holes to go south.
I have found too in my experience I cannot shoot from a bag as well as an bipod, I am not consistent at all with a bag I got to work on that but I can shoot one hole groups with my newly built savage 6br on a bipod, turn around and shoot from a bag put 2 in the same hole and throw the 3rd one an inch off, technique is everything
Sounds like your load is good, could be like me with the bag, something you might not be doing consistent each time. Hope this helps ya out friend and don't stress enjoy the trigger time.
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