I would love to be asking about which shiny new deer rifle I should be buying, but money is tight and it looks like I am stuck with the shotgun this year. I have a Mossberg 500 with 2 barrels - 1 smooth and 1 rifled. That said, I have a couple of questions about hunting deer with my shotgun.

1. How much of a difference in accuracy is there between sabot slugs out of a rifled barrel and rifled slugs out of a smooth barrel at 50-100 yards?

2. What is a good scope for a shotgun assuming that I am shooting less than 100 yards? For some reason, I have had trouble picking up the target through a scope in the past, so please keep that in mind if there is some scope that helps that.