For the past few years, I have almost exclusively been using my 1905 vintage Winchester 1892, 24" octagon barreled 25-20.

It has the factory blade front sight and I use a Lyman tang for the rear. I can stack holes at 25 yards, and keep them under a quarter at 50. I'm positive that the gun STILL shoots better than I can.

I load up boolits dropped from my RCBS 25-85 using straight wheelweight lead in front of 5.5 grains of 2400. Quiet load, does little to no damage on squirrels. Also works well for turkeys, coons, and what have you.. good woods loafing rifle and load.


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