Thank you. It seems there will be plenty who don't ;-)
The old Model 94 has semi retired and now gets to stay in my gun cabinet and not the truck. I guess I'm just not a good old boy anymore. The 30-30 is still, for the above reasons, the first thing I grab if I think I hear something messing with my horses.
I had a 7mm Weatherby Magnum Mark V one time that was so damn pretty I hated to shoot it.
I bought if for elk, but when I sold it I hadn't shot a thing with it except targets, and then I was very careful to keep from scratching it.
I've never made that mistake again.
On the other hand, I had a 44.40 saddle rifle that looked like it had been used in every war since Noah's day, but at a hundred yards in the brush country it would make a hole to get to the deer.
I put a lot of venison in the freezer with that rifle.