Parabola: Thank you. A Fallow doe seems pretty unique to me.

Mine's probably the most practical heirloom I ever received from my family, and I've used it off and on ever since my first whitetail kill with it (in my ancestral home of NW Pennsylvania when I was 13-years old). It's been mostly a deer rifle over its existence, but it has seen a few exotics I suppose, like a buffalo (in a quasi-canned hunt here), reportedly a moose (in Canada in the 1950s), and even an elk (in a "finishing" situation here in Colorado in the early 2000s). Every time I use it I am shocked by how pleasant it is to shoot (when compared to the Model 71 that replaced it, chambered in .348). It has a great trigger and that Lyman sight is darned-efficient in dark timber (which is likely why my ancestor chose to obtain it), especially on running game. You largely shoot it like a shotgun and it seems to work every time. I really should use it more, but out here in the "high & dry" (as I refer to it) it's limited by it's ballistics and the ranges I seem to need to shoot at anymore. My son gets it next.

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