They are a nice carrying slug gun. I've always wanted one. Do you hunt a slug state? Could be a handy backup or rainy day shooter.
-Jake
No, I mainly hunt deer in the northwestern Adirondacks, and it's a rifle legal zone. Of course, slug guns are perfectly ok if you want. One of my cousins who's a lefty used to use a scoped deerslayer years ago when he couldn't find a reasonably priced left handed rifle that he liked. He took deer with it just fine.
Thing is, I seem to be developing a little Ithaca problem. Bought a 16 GA model 37 featherweight about 20 yrs ago. Then over the last few years acquired two first generation 12 ga Deerslayers, one with 20" barrel, the other with a 24" (both smooth bores). Then inherited an old Ithaca 16 GA SxS this spring. Now that 16 GA Deerslayer pops up! Maybe I should get rid of one of the 12 ga guns and pick up the 16...
I'm going to take a couple of rifles over to the smith in a couple of weeks, if the shotgun is still there will have to take a closer look.