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Some of the marlins like the 189x cowboy guns (dont remeber the proper designation right now)handle 300 grains loads very well. Dads Shoots very tight groups at 100+ easily. That being said yes the rate of twist in most of them ( i think it is year or generation dependant) maxes you out at about 270 grains. However I have had a 250 grain rnfp lead "cowboy" round completely penetrate and drop a deer at 30+ yards. One such round was a neck shot since I could not see his body for the brush. It entered the left side of his neck at the spine, severed the spinal column and exited the right side of the neck. It then proceeded to bury more than halfway through a 8 inch yellow pine... A 270 grain Keith round at the proper velocities makes that shot look as anemic as it is...
GoodOlBoy
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