Californiadoctor that thing sounds like a cannon, i bet that 1 3/4 slug hits like a truck.

As for the subject of the post, i have a couple fav guns. My first would be my youth remington 870 that my father got for me to start hunting back when i was 10 or 11, that i used to take a handful of turkey and a bunch of rabbits and squirrels. Second would be my father's Model 70 7mm Remington Magnum. He got it back in like the 70's well before i was born and it is an absolute war horse. It's fancy custom stock has all the scars and nicks of a rifle that has been to hell and back. It has been responsible for a couple bear, a couple mulies and piles of whitetail. The action is just as slick as you please and it still throws nice groups. I kind of took it over a couple years ago when my father took me and my brother to Montana for a mule deer/elk hunt with my uncle who lives out there. In a way it felt kind of like the passing of the torch to get to use the "7 mag", the one that i had been hearing about in hunting stories since i was a little kid. It is really heavy with that custom stock but that heft felt real reassuring over my shoulder and on the first morning of the hunt i got a nice 30 inch 6x6 Mulie with it. I have carried it deer hunting back in NY ever since and although it is more gun then you need for our whitetails, that heft still feels reassuring over my shoulder and its still neat to be hunting with Dad's "7 Mag"