Butch,
Welcome aboard the mother ship. We don't wear life jackets here you can take it off now.LOL

Those are nice guns and don't worry about a slug barrel if you can't afford it this year. The old timers were using rifled foster slugs for a hundred years. Use those and the deer fall over just as hard.

Use a skeet shooter and not the hand thrower at first because the hand thrower is faster thus harder to hit. Get instructions and someone to help you with your form. And don't give up.

I've got 2 Marlins, ones a 22lr bolt and the other a 22mag bolt. Remmember the ten rules of gun handling. If you don't know them, speak up, we'll help you learn them. The hunter's safety course is a MUST!