The browning Silver has a rifled slug gun with a cantilever. id try my best to talk him out of a rifled barrel shotgun. in my opinion the extra cost of a box of sabots isnt worth the mediocre increase in performance. Granted i hunt thick brushy deer woods and i never have the option of a shot over 100, so maybe im being biased. my old browning A5 can cloverleaf a 5 doller box of remington sluggers at 50 and hit a big soup can at 100 and i dont need to ask for much more IMHO. there isnt too much terribly wrong with an old smoothbore.. im just sayin