One of my all time most-favorite cartridges! I've used it in Marlins, Winchesters, trapdoors and Sharps. I've used the old government 500 gr. bullet, cast paper-patched bullets, light bullets, heavy bullets, jacketed bullets and round balls; black powder, smokeless powder and duplex loads. Killed everything from cottontail rabbits and carp up to 6-point bull elk and just about everything in between with it, not to mention rocks, dirt clods and steel silhouettes. That cartridge is a stone killer and I never felt like I was giving up anything when I used it in preference to a modern rifle. I hope it lasts another 125 years!