Haven't bought a deer tag here in Oregon for to many years. I live in Central Oregon and game animals and game birds have all but gone away till this year. Been seeing some finally, shoot even seen a few elk! Gonna get a deer tag next year and had a rifle re-barreled to hunt deer with. 700 ADL was a 243 but now it's a 260 Rem with a Lilja barrel. Have a 129gr Hornady load worked up I'm gonna use. I'm pretty a 6.5 freak these days. Have a 6.5x06 on a 700 BDL with Shilen barrel that shoot's pretty well, right around 3/4" at 100 yds. With 140gr Sierra MK's it's stay just under 1/2". Also have the first Win rifle I ever hunted with. Mod 70 Feather weight in 6.5x55. Went hog hunting last year for the first time and got a nice one for the freezer. Got this rifle about 2004 hoping my grand daughter would become a hunter. She doe's like going out and shooting my son's AR but I think it's just to see how fast she can pull the trigger! She has no desire to hunt. I carried that 260 out deer hunting for a day on a friends ranch but didn't get a shot so maybe this year.