If you live and hunt in Illinois, are you aware that they allow smokeless powder to be used in MLs designed for it? The Savage 10ML-II has proven to be a very simple and easy to care for ML that can digest smokeless powder or any of the various subs like Blackhorn 209, T7 or White Hot pellets if you just have to have the smoke and stink. When used with smokeless loads they are a very capable 200yd deer rifle that drop deer with authority. Myself and about a half dozen other locals have been using them for several years now and none of us would ever dream of using any other inline ML.
