Personally never seen a tarhunt. Have seenseveral h&r's, 870's,500's,and ithica's. Never seen any one of them outshoot a decent centerfire rifle. I have seen this savage muzzleloader outshootmore than a fewgood centerfire rifles out to 300 yds. I assume the poster wants a longer range gun, in a place where the govt. told him he couldn't use a centerfire rifle on deer. It fits the bill if that is what he was looking for. Only get one shot, but you will never need more if you do your part.

IMO, any slug gun can be beat by atleast half of the inline black powder rifles on the market. Smokeless just takes the cleaning hassle out of it, and adds several yards to the practical range. A 300g bullet at 2350fps is more enough to take an deer at 350yds in experienced hands, and that is quite a ways farther out than a slug will be effective.

Sorry 95harley, I know you didn't ask about a ML. They are just more accurate farther out than a slug gun IMO. I would expect a $2500 shotgun to be more accurate than the cheaper ones I've handled, god knows I love my citori more than my 870(not 10x more though). The slug just isn't the best replacement for centerfire rifles.