I have a soft spot in my heart for Ithaca since, a model 37 was the first long gun I fired. That being said, if I were buying a slug gun today, it would propbably be a Savage 212; maybe a 220. As I just said in another post, i have used the 210F since the 90s and love the thing. Other than a heavy trigger pull which, I had corrected, I can see no reason to consider anything else.

I have killed many, many deer with it from 20 to 150+ Yards. Mostly, they dropped with a few yards. Tracking has not been an issue.