Took this out to mess with it after a long hiatus an like the little rifle. It's not drilled for a conventional receiver sight, so looks like I'm stuck with open sights for the foreseeable future.
Loads today were kind of standard plinkers, Lee 255 RFN and 6.5 grains of Red Dot. I also have Lyman 255 grain SWC (452424 I think?) of my Dad's and also a very similar SAECO mold I can use. I know the standard equivalent to the traditional black powder loading is around 8.5 to 9 grains of Unique and a 250ish grain bullet, so this is kind of what I'd like to go with since it works well in my Blackhawks.
Where I've done most of my deer hunting the past few years is from a stand in a big locust tree in the middle of a natural choke point where they move from feeding areas to bedding areas and back. I've killed quite a few from that stand and the shots are usually very close at unsuspecting deer, broadside more often than not. I'm thinking those standard level .45 Colt loads would work fine, especially since that Saeco bullet has a sizeable meplat.
Any thoughts on this? I'm guessing alloy won't make much difference with a bullet this big at these speeds.