Deer taken standing or running from 50 yards to 300.
Antelope ambling along at 150 yards.
Wild Pigs/hogs from 50 yards to 200 yards.
My 30:06 works like the M1, I was trained with. Except, I have the left handed version. Right handed and true eye is my left eye. I learned to shot a rifle with both eyes open with a scope or open sights. The gun is in camo with the scope.
TRUE STORY:
My father worked at the PSFS building in downtown Philadelphia for 38 years. Some time around Christmas 1970 he was walking to get the train home and saw an old black woman walking down Market Street with a gun over her shoulder. (She was struggling to keep the gun slung over her big winter coat.) My father asked if he could help her. In the conversation that ensued she told my father that she entered every contest she could find. She apparently entered a contest at a local sporting goods store and won a brand new 30:06! She told my father that she had no idea what she or anyone in her family would do with a hunting rifle. He offered to relieve her of the rifle for all the cash in his wallet($60!). She told him it was his. He proceed to get on a SEPTA train and brings it home.
NO ONE bat an eye in 1970 at any of this.
I want that country back.