Best lever gun caliber

[Catfish]

A well place shot with the .30-30 will do what your talking abt. The .35 Rem. would do it better, but when you go back to deer, like you said, you`ll lose afew yards on deer. As Poppelcop said, Just pick one. One may hit alittle harder but the other may have 5 yrds. more point blank range. The game own`t be able to tell the difference.