Haha! Some good words of advice all around. I actually WOULD use it deer hunting though...it would be a killer round...so to speak Great woods gun, like that 45-70 with the ability to carry more rounds (10/mag). Wtth a 250-325gr bullet, it would kill anything dead within 200 yards or so.

Costs are already sunk and any additional ones are marginal--powder and primers. I've got a lot of 45-70 bullets...That was my deciding factor in choosing the 458 over the 450 or the 500--one less component. Corbon submitted the designs for SAMII approval but dropped it--it's a long, arduous process and they stopped halfway through (which is why we have Lee case trimming guides shorter than Starline's published recommended lengths (I spoke with Starline and Lee about it to figure out why the Lee was trimming the brass so short). If someone else finished what Corbon started, ammo would drop to 20+30/box. But that's neither here nor there.

Hahaha! I'm still trying to convince myself not to sell it I have several guns in multiple calibers. Some more exotic than others (when was the last time you saw 300H&H on the shelves?). Variety is the spice of life as it were.

Serioualy though, from a preppers standpoint, multiple calibers isn't ncessarily bad. I bought two nines andn a 1911 long before the crisis hit after Sandyhook thinking 9 andn45 are everywhere. After the crazy happened, it was the ubiquitous ammo that went fastest. From that perspective I shoulda bought a 40mm and a 22-250. Walmart ALWAYS had those in stock!

Now a real prepper wouldn't have been buying ammo when it couldn't bf found I suppose....but if you always want something in stock, those less popular cartridges are probably better. 20 is good. Fewer people shoot it than 12, it's easy on the shoulder, and a good all purpose gun. If I buy another gun for myself, it will be a pump 20.

In the end, I think it's more a gesture I need to make to my wife, and something I need to do for myself. I like to tell myself I could get rid of all my toys if needed--that my identity isn't in my guns or knives or gear. It's good to periodically purge--even if only symbolically.