PCV---Breather or connect to air cleaner

if it's a factory valve cover, it should already be baffled

I did my 505 that way , it acted like a vacuum leak, took it back off the air cleaner and re installed the screw in breather , plugged the breather tube , and rpms went back to normal. I aint got that figured out yet, the 426 hemi`s I had were pcv and air breather set ups from the factory .
Any theories ??????????