Well, maybe what his friend feels comfortable with using, or is already familiar with, is a slug gun and that is what matters most.
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The slug-gun will be inaccurate, expensive to shoot, and a heavy recoiler when compared to a rifle.
I've shot a few true slug guns, some cheap and some not as much, and they were all able to put 3 in 3" at 100yards or better. A few, includig the cheaper H&R would put the right load in 1.5" with a scope, which is as good as, and in some cases better than, alot or most hunting rifles out there.
Slugs usually cost anywhere from $5 to $12 per box box of five, depending on what you shoot. Most riflecartridges (hunting, not cheapimports)cost anywhere from $20 to $40 for a box of 20, NOT counting high end or special made that can be a LOT more expensive.
So that means slugs cost between $1 - $2.40 and rifle cartridges cost on average between .......... $1 - $2 a round.
WOW, those slugs are so much more expensive!!!!!
Recoil? That is almost like comparing the recoil on a trap load and a turkey Mag in a shotgun. Besides,a riflein45-70, 375 H&H, 270 Weatherby Mag and similar will kick a heck of a lot harder than a slug gun, especially whan shot out of a rifle just as light.
They also have a lousy trajectories and questionable (IMO)killing power.
Trajectories are no worse than any other projectile of similar weight and velocity. Unless you are thinking of using a 2 3/4" Reduced Power Brinki slug out of an old smoothbore shotgun. Then yes, they don't shoot near as far or accurately, otherwise they are great for 100 yard or less.
Questionable killing power?????????????????????????????
You have got to be kidding, right! Have you ever actually seen someone hit something with one?Or are you just relying on what you heard or "learned" elsewhere, and probably someone who also never had any experience either? Or was it one of those "it takes at least X foot pounds of energy to kill a animal of Y size, therefore........ yet going by the calculations most good deer cartridges should be just as bad" type of web-sites or magazine articles?
You put a shot in the right place and you will knock down any deer at 100 yard just as well as any rifle, you hit it at less than 50 yard and it will look like you just punched it with a sledge hammer. You just see and hear a big "
whummp" and it collapses on the spot. I mean I have actually watched and you do see the shockwave heave the deer's chest when it hits.