Understandable, but now we are talking about two different types of game. With rabbits and upland birds you can have more then one opportunity so a gun that holds more then one shot is a good thing. I just find it unreal when I hear all the shots being fired during Ohio's gun season and all the shoots taken at running deer after they miss the first time. I understand using one gun for two types of game. The only part of your post that I see alot of people doing is going after a deer to quickly. Alot of hunters loose deer every year cause they took up the chase to quickly. Alot of times deer will bed down in a short distance and die. But alot of hunters go after the deer and the the deer gets up and runs, sometimes a great distance and never found. I try to always wait one hour at a minimum before I start to track. This forum is clear full of post where a person says they were tracking the deer and then the blood just stopped. Alot of times I think when this happens is when the person spooked the deer and it took off full steam and the blood drops were just spread out to far and harder to find.

I understand the one gun thing, a tight budget is a hard thing to have as a hunter. Been there, done that!!