1970 Dodge Dart 318 piston rings

hello everybody, currently i am replacing the piston rings on the original pistons from a 318 that has been honed out and the new rings seemed to have a significantly larger gap than what is recommended in the manual for a standard size. So thinking they were faulty i got another set but ended up having the same outcome. I'm not sure whether i need bore out the block even though it seems fine or get oversized rings and file them down to spec or if there is a science about piston rings that I'm missing. Any thoughts?

thank you

Have you measured your bore??? If you have two sets of rings that do not have the proper gap, then maybe your engine is overbored... You don't know what previous owners may have done before you got it, it's best to measure to see what you have and then go from there to get the proper ring size...