What type of hunting will you be doing? What kind of money do you want to spend? Do you want a pump, single shot or semi auto? Will it be just for deer hunting, or do you want one with some versatility to small game hunt with as well?

Answer those and we can narrow it down a bit more for you.

Also how do you feel about recoil? The newer 20 ga slug guns are pretty nice, they rival an inline muzzle loader for ballistics pretty much. Plenty to kill a deer at 100 yards, that's for sure.

Paul