Too bad the eye relief of the Tasco is too far out for use on my Krags.  Sighting in went pretty good with the Nosler bullets.  My uncle liked seeing bricks blown up at 100yds once I got sighted at 50, so I didn't get to do any groups except for one target I'd go back to between bricks.  Those 4 fell into about 1.25", 3 within 1/2", again @50yds.  At the end I decided to shoot some 193gr cast loads I had loaded with 45.1 of DP85, an old Accurate surplus powder, about like Win 760.  First three went into an inch, a slightly different POI compared to the 168s.  The last five, quickly shot, went into a nice group slightly less than 1" square.  After I got home, I noticed my gas cylinder was a bit loose, I'll have to tighten that up.  45.1gr should have got the 193s up around 2250fps!  They were cast of a hard alloy, same alloy I used for Paul's spritzers.  No lead blowback on the casenecks, no lead in the barrel, but it looks like there may have been some blow by that occurred during the trip through the compensator.  Guess that didn't effect accuracy much, but I'll likely take the compensator off for future lead bullet shooting!  With the smallest jet of the McCann venting some gas, the loads had no problem cycling the Garand, even though it needs some grease.  Lee's load data, which is really extrapolated from jacketed loads, shows about 40,000psi.  With a cast bullet it would be less.  The bullet is an enlarged  base pour version of Don Eagan's nose pour MX2-30H, made by NOE.  I sized it down in steps to .310.  The nose really fills the Garand's throat well!  The dot on the Tasco at 50yds just fits in the square formed by the heavy lines on the target.

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