i have one in an encore pistol 15" barrel w a 4X leupold scope, much fun and i have killed a few deer with it, great round, on of these days i'll have a rifle in one, in fact when i went to buy my wife a rifle it was what i was looking for, well a friend had a like new rem model 7 in 260 rem, i just had to have it, somethin new and somethin different, kinda like my X-mas present an 1894 marlin in 41 mag, cool little lever gun, shoots like a dream and @ 100yrds and less is pretty good deer medicine