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In california we are required by law to use lead-free ammunition for hunting (and likely to soon apply to target shooting as well).

 

Now, non-lead ammunition is lacking in a couple of aspects - it's lighter, harder, and tends to be less efficacious than lead on game.  Also, as it is lighter, bullets tend to be longer and therefore less accurate when fired from slower-twist barrels designed for lead based bullets.  Like almost every rifle I own.

 

When I was a youngster I had excellent vision (20 10).  But now that I'm in my seventies and starting cataracts, not so much.  So, I decided to put a scope back on my old Marlin .30-30.  It actually came with a Marlin-labeled scope when I bought it back in '71, but I quickly replaced that scope with a sweet Lyman receiver sight and Marble's Sheard front sight - they served well for many decades.  But it's time; last week I mounted an old Weaver K2.5 on the carbine.  

 

Sighted it in yesterday at a hundred yards.  With the Nosler "E-Tip 30-30" bullets costing about $2.00 apiece*, I didn't want to bury too many of 'em into the berm.  Three shots to get on paper; then these four.  Done.

 

I think it'll definitely shoot with "minute of deer" accuracy.  :)

 

*Yikes!!  Up to eighty bucks for a box of fifty, plus sales tax, plus california's new 11% BS tax...!  :o  :(  

 

 

 

   Nosler 150gr E-Tip 30-30 ~ righty purty!

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The target ~ with scope adjustments after each shot

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The ad that "sold" me on the Marlin fifty-three years ago, what it looked like when I bought it... and the rifle today with the replacement scope.

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                       I really like this reticle!

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We expect a hunting story with photos as a sequel.  Good luck!  

 

😋

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Just a sighting in story.  I worked with a big Sweed that was naturally big and strong.  He was having problems sighting in his Remington 742 30-06 carbine. It shot all over the place.  He came out to our farm to let us see what was wrong with the gun or scope. We didn't see anything obvious.  I shot it. My brother-in-law shot it. It shot fine. Mark got down on our improvised shooting bench and tried to shoot it. We found the problem.  He finched as if hit by a cattle prod. He forgot to take safety off but the problem was obvious.  

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I truly hope you get your deer Hardpan. :D

 

I am slowly adding scopes to all my rifles. I still have peeps on my Winchester 94 and my Marlin 336. Both are 30-30. 
The Winchester will not get a scope. The Marlin will. It will get the same scope as the one I installed on my Henry X model .45 Colt. A Monstrum Banshee 1-8x24 LPVO with an illuminated reticle. 
I was going to put my Leupold Vari X 3-9x33 Compact on it, but that scope is going on my new Mossberg Patriot .308.

 

My Henry. If you need eye bleach, please don’t whine. 
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