Yes John it's a farm deer but it was no match for the little .357 Marlin. I'm tickled pink with this rifle
Nice big deer!
I now have a couple of 1873 clones in .45 Colt for cowboy action shooting, both slicked up with short strokes, that I wouldn't mind trying in your kind of hunting. One of these days....
The short lever actions do handle great, all right.
