I borrowed a Winchester 70A .243 from my cousin to kill my first deer. I had a Winchester 94, but I couldn't shoot it for schitt, so I borrowed his "spare" rifle and killed a little deer with it. My eyesight has never been real good, and the 4X All American Lyman scope on the .243 helped a lot. I killed another buck a couple of years later with another .243 (my own, this time), but switched to a .270 a couple of years after that. Been using the .270s ever since.


You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.