I'm looking, and hoping to the future, that Ohio passes a straight walled case law for deer hunting. I have a 94AE in .44 Mag, but want another a little more powerful, deer rifle. What's y'all's opinion on the 444 over the 45-70, and Marlin, over Winchester? I'm looking hard at 18 1/2", and am also wandering how much the porting helps. I'll need to buy dies, but have bullets in .44, and also some .45 for acp rounds...can I use the .45's for the .45-70? I haven't looked into that yet. Thanks for the input....