For years (since he bought it new at age 16) my dad's primary hunting gun was his Remington 870 Wingmaster 20 gauge shotgun. Used it for everything from squirrels to deer. It's also the gun I learned to shoot on, along with an ancient Mossberg .22 semi-auto (the "Jam-O-Matic"). He still has that gun, and it'll be passed on to me when he's gone, and as long as gun-grabbing retards like Kerry don't get elected too often, my son will get it when I'm pushing up daisies.

Later he got into muzzleloading for deer, and ended up with a handy little T/C White Mtn. carbine that has killed many deer. It's the smallest and most portable ML I've ever seen (that wasn't a pistol), and while its short (for a ML) 22" bbl won't set any velocity records, it'll still do a number on a deer inside 100 yards.

Mike