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I believe that it was made on or before 1912 . Unfortunately, the proofing info doesn't give the weight of the projectile.

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Before WW1 here was only one bullet weight for the 8x57I, a 227 gr bullet at 2170 fps from a 27” barrel.
Quite often the old rifles shoot very high over original open sights by today’s standards. Being trained to shoot the then military rifles with their 400 meter “zeros”, many people habitually shot by “taking a fine bead”, that is nestling the front sight deep into the notch of the rear sight and placing the target on top of the bead.

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