My dad hunted deer one time with this single shot .30-06 of my grand-dads, my old man was mostly a wing shooter, he guided hunts at a few of the ranches around here, he used an Iver Johnson Champion single shot .410. He also was an avid coon hunter (still is), he's used Marlin semiauto .22's since he started shooting, a Marlin 99M-1 (looks like a mini M-1Carbine), a 66 (the model 60 of current manufacture plus 1 rnd more capacity), and now a Marlin 60 stainless that I bought him two years ago for christmas. The .410 is pretty much the only gun I hunt with for upland game and dove and I still shoot the 99M-1 more than any of my other rimfire rifles.