Season started last weekend for me. I was planning on taking the new to me 25-06 encore out, but after finding that it wasn't even on paper again, I parked it for the winter and grabbed the trusty 14" 30-30 as a primary and the 45-70 as backup. I hunt in a place where 200 yards is a long shot and the 30-30 just gets the job done with reliability every time I pick it up.
It always maintains zero and deer typically run 20-30 yard.

Early on opening day, I connected with a young 3 pt buck at ~ 140yards. An hour or so later, I looked up from my HHM Forums to see a nice 10pt sneaking past the stand along the edge of the field. I connected at about 90 yards. Our party ended up with 4 deer on the ground by 10:30.