My first center fire rifle was given to me by a friend of my mother, it was a Winchester long barreled 44-40 on it's last legs, to say it was used is a understatement, he also gave me 3 boxes Win Yellow box ammo don't remember what gr.
Loaded this thing up, I think it held some were between 12 and 15 rnds in the tube, and it was all I could to shoulder it, it weighed a ton, soon learned to only put 3 or4 rnds in the tube and it was manageable, killed Mule deer and Elk like lighting if you could get close enough, to hit them with a rock. Rio7
