I have been following the discussions in this forum and occasionally contributing ever since I inherited a model 1898 last year.  Finally, I was able to shoot it recently. Do these results seem normal? Any comments from anyone?
1. I tried some 165 grain pointed bullets from Bitterroot Valley.  The pointed bullets won't feed in my action unless I load them one at a time directly into the chamber. But I expected that with pointed bullets. These loads had mild recoil. They were right on vertically, but grouped several inches to the left.
2. A few months ago in this forum, someone mentioned that reloads with 220 grain nose bullets using 40 grains of IMR 4350 was a good duplicate of the original ballistics, and such loads should work well with the original sight settings. So I got some dies and made reloads with that recipe.  They had more recoil than the Bitterroot Valley loads. They were right on horizontally, but at 100 yards they shot so low that most shots were off the bottom of the target.  I had to set the slider on the rear sight to 1200 yards to get a good vertical result.

In my experience with handguns, it has been the case that heavier bullets with more recoil tend to shoot high, because the recoil starts to lift the gun before the bullet clears the muzzle. So why do my 220 grain reloads shoot so low?