What Chaz88 said is what I've heard from other hunters...
A gun designed from the very beginning to be a slug gun (with a rigid bolt action and a good trigger) tends to outperform do-it-all shotguns with any kind of barrel screwed on.
If I were going to buy a shotgun that would ONLY be used for deer hunting, I'd say something like the savage 220 makes sense. But if I already had a field gun with a smooth barrel, I wouldn't feel too compelled to buy an extra rifled barrel.
|