I became the proud owner of a neat little 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer a year ago. I have enjoyed playing with it immensely and managed to kill a small 7 pt buck with it last month. It performed perfectly!
Now that I have pretty well completely wrung it out with various jacketed bullets and powders, I want to turn my attention to developing a cast load for deer. I have a bag of very nice looking 160ish gr flat point gas checked bullets given to me by a friend. I loaded a dummy round this morning and it fed through the rotary magazine just as slickly as the 160 gr RN jacketed loads it was designed for.
However, when I started looking for cast bullet load data for the 6.5X54, there was very little to be found. So, if any of you have suggestions for a good hunting load with a 160 gr bullet, I would love to hear about them. I posted this in the Hunting Forum because I'm only interested in something adequate for deer hunting, not target shooting or plinking.