I have one of these rifles with the tang safety. I load 100gn bullets, usually the 100gn Hornady, with H4350. This gets about 2770 fps in the 20" barrel. The 100gn Ballistic Tip was too hard and used to zip through pigs which would run a ways before going down. I have shot two pigs with the one bullet twice using 100gn Ballistic Tips. I love my little rifle so much I recently sold my Model 54 .250-3000 as I like the Ruger better.
