1000 ft lbs. thats good to know, thanks Virginia. By all means I am an ethical hunter and would never want to leave a deer to get away mamed only to suffer a slow death. I do have a .308 for the longer range stuff, I was just surprised today at the impact the 30-30 seemed to have out at the 300-350 mark. I am going to shoot this rifle with just the open sights so I'll be keeping the shots at just over 100 yards at the most. I live in southern California but plan to be moving to east Texas within the next year which is how I justified buying this rifle, east Texas deer hunting is close range shooting plus I hear that it's mandatory for hunters to have a 30-30 lever action in Texas! 8&gt

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