Hello. Long time lurker now a new member. Anyway, I shot cast for several years then got away from it shooting mainly jacketed. In my Springfield M1903 I changed over to. CMP load. 110 grain Sierra Varmiter over 47 grains of IMR3031. It shot well and had less recoil than 150-168 grain loads.
Now, I have decided to come back to where I started. Cleaned the bore of copper and am ready to go. I am using my old stand by 311299 sized to .311. Federal Gold Medal match brass and WLR primers. I have used 5744 and IMR4227 in that rifle before I am going to try testing groups using IMR4227 with 16,17,&18 grains. Does anyone for see any problems with that? I am not using any Dacron filler. You think I need to tip the muzzle back?
Hope to hear some ideas back and look forward to being here. Thank you.