RE: 12 guage slug range.
Agree totally with Roskoe, except with a bead I have a hard time going past 35-40 yards. At that distance the bead takes up the whole vitals.
Change out your sight to a rifle and put you a rifled choke in , and you up to a good 75 yards. But then you are almost to the place you could buy a new rilfed barrel.