A friend of mine used to have a Savage lever rifle a long time ago that I really wanted. He let his brother use it, and that fool sold it. It was a 300 Savage as I remember, and that was a long range deer knocker. It kind of reminded me of that rifle's looks. I always said I wanted another lever rifle. I sold my old model 94 to my brother because he was having a fit over mine. I was going to get a Marlin .444, .450 or 45/70 but never did. And even if I did, I would never shoot the thing probably. I really need to stop hanging out here. I turned into a collector.

I threw a red dot on my SKS one year, tuned it in of course for 50 yards. That year, I let my friends daughter (who had just passed her hunter safety course and was gun poor)use the rifle. She popped a monster eight point at about 40 yards with it. When I asked her where she aimed, she said.. I put the red dot on his shoulder and pulled the trigger twice. She said it did a good job knocking it down. I personally have never shot a deer with it. I bought it because I saw it in a store and next thing you know it came home with me.