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Power, who needs it? One experience doesn't make a rule, but I came around a corner on a dirt road a few years ago and here was a nice pickup sitting in the middle of the road, door open and an old guy fiddling with his rifle. I gave him the high sign, ok, no hurry. He walked back to my truck and whispered, there is a legal elk in that clump of firs above the road and none of my damn ammo will chamber in my rifle. I thought for a second and told him I had an iron sighted .30/40 Krag under the seat. After a quick whispered discussion of what would happen to my rifle if a game warden came by, he used the Krag on the standing elk...170 yds steep uphill...thwock, one and done. 180 gr roundnose around 2200, no drama.