During a party last Christmas I was talking hunting with my 20 year old nephew and ended up showing him my Rem 870 with scope mounted on the cantilevered rifed barrel. He told me scopes on shotguns were for wimps. I asked him how he did deer hunting this year, and told me the story of how he shot a doe with his smooth bore bead only sight shotgun at 100 yards. He ended up wounding the deer, tracked it for hours, and at the end of the day, never recovered the deer. I may be a wimp, but I've always put down deer with accruate shots with my scope, and have never lost one.