Well, this season's opening morning will be Saturday November 3rd in the state of Rhode Island for deer. This is the opening day of muzzleloading season. Sadly, RI doesn't seem to allow muzzleloading handguns for deer hunting. So I will be hunting with a carbine barrel mounted on my Armor Alloy TC Contender with a Choate folder mounted with an Aimpoint.

My load is a 100 grain charge of H777 3 F granulation under a 300 grain sabot which has cleared the screens at an average of 1725 fps.

That should cleanly take a whitetail, if I am lucky. I collected a trail camera on a good spot and I am impressed. I got about forty three images of deer over a 2 1/2 week period.