I like it. Maybe not the hook so much, but the rest is nice. Enviable!

Just fold the hook back under the bottom of the PG, and maybe remove the knob.

My cousin uses a rifle similar to yours ,martini action with a much shorter barrel I think it’s 18 inches but I know he uses a 180 grain flat point bullet in a mold he bought custom from accurate bullet molds it shoots really good and he’s takin many deer with it I don’t know the powder charge but I know uses 2400.

Mine has 18 inch barrel on BSA action, and is super hand and accurate. Gave my other bored by JES to my Pop. Lots of fun and relatively cheap. No deer taken but sure it's capable.

It’s not a classic single shot, but I have one of the current Henry break action rifles in .357 Magnum. It is very, very effective on deer using 180 grain factory loads, but I’ve been meaning to pick up a mold for a similar weight cast bullet, perhaps even heavier. Cbashooter on here reamed one of the same Henry rifles out to .357 Maximum which would be tempting if obtaining brass wasn’t such an issue

HI,
Just being contrary I'd go with a .357 max if the action will take it. 
I have no experience with a .357 but mag | max well placed shots should do the job 
nicely. Enjoy. 
I have a .357 max on a Fix action but shifted to a muzzleloader area before I got a chance to use it. My historic deer hunting area burned a few years ago so I probably will never get back to it. Can't win them all.

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Don't know how it would be in your area, but up here in the big woods of north central Pennsylvania that would make for some fantastic deer hunting over the next ten years. Forest fires, like logging, make for lots of new feed and cover and the deer are attracted to it like iron filings to a magnet. 
Back when I worked in a sawmill, the woods crew had a saying the a chain saw was the best deer call on the market. Even the sound of a log skidder wouldn't scare deer away.
Many of the old timer deer hunters (like me) that I've talked to complain of the poor quality of deer hunting in their tradition hunting areas. And it is often because they have hunted in the same area for the past 40 or 50 years. All the while the trees are slowly growing into different stages of development with the associated changes in food and cover. It's a case of the deer bring more adaptable than their pursuers.  

John