I was hunting thick timber bordering open flat country with a .30/30 and when I came to the edge and there were several trophy sized animals across the open field on the opposite end of the open field. That was 30 years ago and never carried a .30/30 again until recently when hunting limited timber areas or in tree stands for white tail. The smallest property I ever hunted in Oz was about 8,000 acres nestled between other properties of similar or larger size so the hunting landscape is larger than you find here in a lot of the US. Flat shooting scoped rifles were more apt there to the point that the only person I ever met hunting with a lever rifle there was using a Miroku (Browning) lever in .308.
