RE: buckshot or slugs
What do you mean you have no choke? You mean your gun game with a cylinder bore choke, or that you have screw in chokes and just don't use them? You should not be shooting anything out of a gun with no choke installed if it takes screw in chokes.
What is your version of "works the best"? What sort of accuracy are you getting out of what sabot out of a smooth bore. I can't believe that you won't find something that is better or just as good in a rifled slug for 1/3 the money of what a sabot costs.
Paul