I have started to use my double for a general use gun. I just love to shoot it, and its about the only way to get field practice with it. If I tell myself, "well just don't use it unless you hunt really big game..." I'll only use about once a year or so. I bring it with my black bear hunting, and will try it for whitetails and other things this coming season. For close and mixed cover it works fine. There are times of course when its not practical, so the old '06 comes out for open country hunting, and really bad weather. Also for humps up mountains with an extrernal pack frame I'm just not comfortable with the double scratching back and forth along side the frame...

Just my thoughts.