Wife and I had a very successful Missouri firearms deer season this year. After 2 days of seeing nothing but small bucks, doe and fawns.... Monday November 15th got sort of hectic, with my wife scoring on a nice heavy horned 8 in the morning, and I finishing up the day on a well aged, wide Missouri 8 point frame buck. I suspect he was on the down hill side of things, he might be the biggest bodied whitetail I have had the honor to take.
Mine was taken with a Ruger No1 in 6.5x55 Swede. While, maybe not as cool as a fine Parker SxS, as far as deer rifles go, it's near the top for me.