anyone degree their cam?

I always degree my cams. My brother in law installed a MP 292 .508 in his 10:1 340 just by lining the dots up and it was the biggest dog you ever did see. Would not even spin power braking it. I degreed the cam and it was 10 degrees retarded. Night and day after degreeing. Will now break free at a roll after degreeing cam and recurving the distributor. He went from very disgusted to very impressed on how a 340 can go if set up correctly.