That gun can be made to shoot well with just a little work.
I've a 1941 mfg'd Tula that'l give me ragged one hole groups at about ten yards.........surprisingly at about five it's remarkably effective in DA.........even tho that action'l wear a blister on your trigger finger!
My dies are Lee's.......modified solely by the addition of a plastic plug under the seating stem which has been relieved to permit it to seat the bullet completely into the case to mimic the factory stuff. My load is 3.5 grains of Bullseye, bullet a Lee 100 gr. hard cast & sized .308 in my Lyman lube/sizer with Javelina brand alox.
Bullet is seated approximately 1/4" into the case & then crimped quite hard to visually duplicate the original.
Brass is Graf's starline stuff........works great............I'd suggest you stay away from the Bartram stuff as I've found it to be so hard that it'd split on the FIRST sizing attempt......waste of money in my book!.....anyway the Starline brass works well..........size the case only to the depth you require to both seat the case in your cylinder and to hold the bullet.
As an aside, I dribble some of Lee's alox lube into the case mouth.....don't know if it really helps much but I don't get any leading & my gun's bore is far from pristine.
Hope this helps.............by the way, the .32-20 stuff will work, but I've found that to use it reliably I have had to thin the rim on my mini lath. Your's might not require that, but I'd check it out first.
Further (gettin' old & forget to include stuff, I guess), I oughtta mention that the Starline batch I bought was about 50M too short & therefore you lose the gas seal feature if that matters......Bartrams' junk IS the right length....BUT.........
