I have a .30-.30 Marlin too. I bought it from a guy in 1978. He wanted to be a "hunter". He took it out of the box, (didn't even site it in), went out in the woods ONE time, didn't see a deer, never went out again. So i got it (with a scope) for $60!
I LOVE that rifle. I have taken quite a few deer with it. The farthest shot i made was a perfect heart shot at 130 yards.
With that kind of rifle, you'd have to hold about 2 feet over the deer's back to make a 200 yard shot.
I thought of getting a more powerful rifle, but i love the one i have cause it is light to carry, and doesn't have an overpowering recoil.
Besides, rarely do you get a shot at more then 150 yards where i hunt. Most are 130 yards and in.

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Foster,

You need to read the section of Michael Pollan's Second Nature where he talks about dealing with a woodchuck menace. Eventually tries what he calls the Westmoreland strategy. Pours creosote and gasoline down the holes, then sets a match to it. Woodchucks survived; Pollan's eyebrows didn't.

(Apropos of nothing in particular Second Nature is a great book. Essentially points out that Thoreau's theory of land use silly. Pollan's friends must consider it a temporary brain fart -- he's a shiny east coast liberal editor; his later books have made him a darling of the PC types here -- gave a convocation last year. But IMO its by far his best book.)

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i use a 338 autoloader modified to chamber a .516 caliber, because sometimes i go to africa for elephants/rhinos but it takes down any deer quickly, i also use a colt m1911 for closer encounters, i used to use a .50 revolver

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Mr. Grandpa groundhog:

You wanna play games? We'll play motherf#cking games, bitch.

Mess with MY cabbage, NOW, asshole.

Hahahahaha!!

I was wondering what your sig was all about.. Now I know.

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R.I.P. grandpa.

p

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