Hi Nathan67,

It has been my experience that the biggest issue limiting the effective range of a shotgun with slugs....is the " sighting equipment" . Your shotgun my actually shoot one brand or another of the " Foster style" slugs or Brenneke' s quite well, but if all you have is a shotgun bead you may have difficulty shooting well with it! Shotgun beads and ribs were intended to aid in sighting and shooting " shot" and can do quite well in that regard. But they really do NOT do a very good job at precisely placing a single projectile!

Give it a try and see how you do. Limit your range on deer to the range that you can put all of your shots into a paper plate sized target at the range.....WHATEVER range that may be. If you are willing to do that...then a " beaded" shotgun will work. If on the other hand you are willing to spend between $75. to $100. or so, you should be able to find either a used or a new " smooth bore" barrel with rifle sights. For a little more money you can get a " rifled barrel" with iron sights. Either of those with the appropriate slugs will make a much better deer gun.

If I' m not mistaken....I' ve recently seen that Mossberg is making sighted slug barrels for Remington' s 870. The advantage is that they are less expensive than Remington' s barrel. I honestly think you would be much happier with a barrel with rifle sights as opposed to a shotgun bead. (And of course it may not be as precise as a scoped barrel...but it saves you the cost of a decent scope!)

Good luck....let us know how it turns out!