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Model 70, if this place you found is in CA, you won't have to worry about a choice. You get one or the other. They tell you what you can use, with no choice left to you. Slugs are required in most of the state except for any area where they are "locally" prohibited.

Check the Methods section of the Mammals hand book from F&G. It's Section 363 or something like that. Don't have my book in reach right now.

In those areas you can use 00 or 000 buckshot but not slugs. As far as I can find out, those areas restricting slugs are not listed so you have to check locally. I have heard. from a BIL, of an area down around San Diego that restricts the use of slugs.

Whacky CA laws aside, I vote for slugs. I've used both and harvested deer with both. Slugs have proved to be more effective for me. I'm 74 and took my first deer at the age of ten. in 1941, and used buckshot to collect a smallish Texas fork-horn.

I've fired many slugs from full choke shotguns with no damage to the gun. In fact, I prefer a 12 gauge with I/C or Modified choke as I've found them to give better groups than Cyl Bore barrels.

I live about 65 miles south-east of you, in Amador County.

Good Luck on your hunt!

12 Ga