Daddy's 30/30 my momma bought for for him in the 50's + - as a Sears employee back then. ( 60 some odd dollars if I'm remembering right) IIRC the Federal ammo in the 10 round red plastic belt carriers from Gibson's department store cost a bit less than the Remington or Winchester, so that's what I bought
That was back when the hunting magazines all said that you couldn't kill a deer without a magnum rifle and that the bullet needed to expand greatly inside the animal and stay just inside the carcass, or it had failed and wasn't effective. I almost believed that for a couple of times in my lifetime
( the one in the image gallery of Marlins I had my nephew post for me some hours ago)