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We have a lot of 303 shooters in our club and our range has the usual gallery range limitations. Any high velocity rifle shooter has to have his loads chronographed and entered in a range manual: he / she must not use any other load without repeating the procedure. I advise new shooters as posted above. For a 100m gallery range, you don't need jacketed bullets or even gas checks and slowish pistol powders are fine, but the advice is rarely taken. Most 303 shooters use 4198 powder and load to around 1800 ft / sec. They use expensive jacketed bullets, with all the hassle of copper fouling and so on. I can't explain this.
Fred

I concur absolutely Fred.

We have the same process for our 25yrd indoor range.

For good low velocity loads ot to 100 yrds, 100 gn lead bullets and fast pistol powders all all that is needed.

Nothing new and these loads have been used for decades by the military as well as civilian shooters but as you say Fred people know better, sometimes you can't give good shooting away. Current post modern thinking I am afraid " if it isn't "new" then it has no value.

This just the kind of info I need - thanks both. My indoor range has the same procedure when wanting to fire military calibres. Chrono'd and recorded as stated.

It is all in the Ed Harris article you were directed to.