I have saved this post for rifle season, but I made a gun purchase in early October in preparation for rifle season in North Carolina (and probably someday in Maryland, Iowa, and other states that require shotguns for deer hunting). 

Long story short, I got the gun on sale for dirt cheap, the Leopold scope on sale for dirt cheap, and a custom Hastings rifled barrel to throw slugs far downrange.  The only downside to the gun is the expensive shells that I am shooting…Remington hi-performance slugs, but it does command some impressive groups out to the 125 yards that it has been shot so far. 

I didn’t take the gun out on Saturday because of rain chances, but tomorrow I will hopefully debut the gun in the deer woods.  Maybe even put the smackdown on one.  At 375 grains, I think a smackdown is exactly what might happen.

I was impressed with the grain of the wood stock.  Beautiful cut of wood!