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Next year I will be fully recovered from this blasted shoulder surgery...and I have a dream,to take a good Billy goat off the mountain I look at every morning from our picture window.I have killed scads of goats in my lifetime..but I want to kill it with an iron sighted lever gun. I will be 59 next fall and I will pretty well be an old goat myself.I was thinking a .33 high power because we found an old cartridge case up there prior.It would be fitting to leave my BLR at home and look for an rifle chambered in the .33 over the winter. I know others earlier on took goats with a .405 win but that provides pain to the shooter imo with metal button plate.Any opinions on this idea?

Not all .405 rifles have steel butt plates:
Simson Suhl Double .405


Miroku/Winchester 1895 TD in .405

beautiful rifles,and one is a fancy m95 but I had a more traditional rifle in mind,the .33 high power we believed was used around 1905 or so.Perhaps by W.T. Hornady and he wrote about it in Campfires in the Rockies.Thanks for postimg

Thanks for the flowers on the rifles, but that is my "hunting/shooter" 1895 TD .405 laying over the piggy, here is a picture of my FANCY 1895 Deluxe .405 "looker" :

You'll be looking for a Winchester 1886 chambered in .33 Winchester (WCF). Marlin also chambered it in their 1895 but they're not too common. Fortunately original 1886 Lightweight models in .33 WCF are fairly easy to find (Cabelas has several, example below) and prices for shooter grade rifles not too exorbitant. A 200 grain bullet at 2200 fps out of a 8 pound rifle shouldn't be too harsh on your shoulder. Buffalo Arms offers ammo loaded with the Hornady FTX flex tip bullet. .33 WCF ammo