Loaned my Howa out twice last year.... both times daughters of a friend wanted to borrow it... He passed away last summer, so I was feeling
too much pity, but they brought it back in good working order....

Load for them which I do for kids...

30 grains IMR 4198, and a 120 gr Ballistic Tip....Both had success, blacktails.. so not a big challenged..

but it did what It was supposed to do with no issues...

both times the shots were 150 yds or under...

"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC

“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez