Tips? Of course. If you're shooting at shorter ranges (say 100 yards or less), this is a perfect gun for deer and black bear. You can obviously shoot it further but you start running into holdover with iron sights. Not impossible but takes a smidge more aiming time and thought. But for a walkaround rifle, it's just plain fun. It's also serious medicine if you run cross a coyote at those ranges. Enjoy the rifle and have fun. By the way, what vintage is yours? The older ones seem to have that extra something just knowing how many people must have owned it before.