Spark Plug Advice Needed

When I set the idle mixture screws I turned them all the way in until it stumbled then turned out 1/4 turn. That seemed to help more than using a vacuum gauge.
Cut another plug open today and it's a little bit rich.
If you look down the threaded shell you can see it's black all the way down.
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