OK fellas...

Here's the dilemma. I harvested my buck in archery season (we're only allowed one antlered deer per season in PA), so I will be going back out the Monday after Thanksgiving for the opener of our two week regular firearms season and I have an antlerless tag for my management unit. I'm undecided as to whether or not I will even shoot a deer because my wife will be hunting as well and I'm hoping she'll get her buck. We never take more than we can use so it's not a question of filling our freezer. She has already stated that she has no intention of shooting a doe the first week even though our unit is either sex for both weeks and we both have ML stamps to hunt the late Flintlock season anyway. That said, I thought I would go out because I like to be in the woods while she is just in case she needs my help (which she rarely does) and maybe fill a tag with a firearm I have never taken a deer with. Here's a list of the firearms I own that I've never taken a deer with and it's actually pretty short compared to the overall list of what I have.

1. 1946 Savage model 99 .300 Savage in 90+% condition that I have never fired. I bought it at a very reasonable price as an investment gun back in 1986.

2. 1957 Winchester model 94 30-30 in probably 95% original condition bought as an investment gun.

3. 1975 Ithaca Deerslayer 12 gauge (smoothbore slug barrel) with factory Raybar sights in 95% original condition (the previous owner ran a 5-pack of slugs through it)

3. My first muzzleloading rifle...a T/C .50 Hawken percussion that my parents gave me for Christmas in 1973.

4. A T/C Renegade .54 percussion purchased in December 2012.

5. A T/C Hawken .54 percussion (never fired) purchased in October 2013.

6. Ruger Vaquero 4-5/8" barrel chambered for .45 LC (real close range gun).

That's about it... Everything else I own that's legal to hunt deer with has already has taken a deer. So here are the choices, if it was your choice which would it be?

I'm leaning toward one in particular... just curious as to what you all might have to say.

BPS