First time out this season with the Marlin 95 .45 Libertarian this morning. I had put a red/green dot sight on it and it works well. The gun is a hammer boys and girls. I'm using (as some remember) 405 gr water dropped hard cast lead bullets. It entered the front shoulder , hit heart and lung and exited cleanly out the other side (big hole). I thought it would stay in especially after going thru the shoulder bones but no. Kinda would have liked to see the bullet faster but that thing must have held together pretty good.About a 25 yd shot, deer went 20 yds and crumpled up. I'm actually surprised it went that far. My new go to deer rifle.