Good stuff TMitch, congrats on a beautiful rifle, dont know if my 1899 year model '94 in 32-40 has Winchesters nickel steel barrel, so treated it as an iron barrel, that said, i found a couple old boxes of Dominion loaded ammo with copper jacketed flat point bullets, pulled those, threw em in the trash, dumped the powder, resized with de capping rod out to save the primers, reloded the brass with a charge of H-335 under some nice 178gr cast lead flat nosed bullets, iirc they run an easy 1555 fps.
Hit a button buck i thought was a young doe last fall in the ribs at 55 yards, it flinched at the shot and kicked a bit, stopped, tried to turn and go back, collapsed into a short oak bush and died, what a cool hunt with that old rifle, hope you have many years of enjoyment with yours, i'd find a cast flat nosed bullet at .380" and some RL-7.
