Marlin 30/30 lever with open sights. Dropped a gawdawful 10-point buck in his tracks yesterday morning from maybe 40 yards out. Hit him in the left shoulder and found the slug hung under the hide of the right shoulder.. It's not the most powerful rifle ever, but that's plenty good enough to get the job done.
Somebody close by, however, was using something decidedly more modern... He made himself known just at dusk, when all the idiots decide it's more pragmatic to go ahead and unload on trees and rocks than it is to pack that cumbersome half-pound of ammo all the way back to the truck.. I was standing in the barn cleaning mine when whoever it was let loose three distinct bursts of smallish-caliber automatic weapons fire. And, no, this was not somebody with a really fast trigger finger playing with an SKS.. This was automatic weapons fire.
I thought about calling it in, but then thought, what's the point?? What would I tell them? "It came from that way..somewhere..I think.." :roll: