re: Thinking of getting a short range gun for deer hunting.

I'm doing the same thing this weekend. The place I'm hunting has thick woods with bottoms loaded with acorns and they rent seeing much activity on the food plots and feeders yet. I've got a sneaky spot that I've killed a few times in already.

I'm using my 20GA 3" slug hands-rifle with rifled barrel over my 45-70 handi-rifle. I killed three deer in Illinois last year at this time within 50 yards and was amazed and the carnage that ensued.