I was on the porch of the cabin we hunt out of and I had my old marlin 30-30 loaded with Win 170 gr Power Points and we have a metal target at 300 yards maybe 3 ft by 2 ft and all the younger teenagers that hunt there had their 7 mags and 30-06 with them and I told them I bet I could kill a deer with this open sight 30-30 about as far as they could with their rifles and the laugh and said I would be lucky to kill one at 50 yards. I said you really think that. I picked up the 30-30 and shot five times at the 300 yard target and rung it four out of five shots of hand with open sights. The look on their faces was priceless. I told them the 30-30 leaver action was killing deer long before the magnums was even invented. They all now have a different opinion of the 30-30.
