Have a question for anyone shooting the old Wildcat loads. I have a old rifle shooting a Lovell .22-3000 and yes the brass if hard to find so I want to preserve the brass best as possible. For reference I have an old Speer catalog, "Wildcat Rifle Loads" Vol.2 from 1958. In that book, they have the .22-3000 Lovell using a 50 grain bullet at 16.8 to 15.3 grains of 4227 powder. The old timers were known to be loading hot and pushing to get 3,000 fps velocities with a .22 bullet. That's not where I am, at this point I just want to preserve the brass and still get descent performance.
What would be consider a lighter load using the 4227 powder?
Of course always happy to hear from other .22-3000 shooters.