I've owned several smoothbores over the past ten years and can truly say they all vary in the accuracy arena. Even the same model from the same manufacturer bought as a father son pair differed greatly. With my particular 62 smoothy I was doing well to hit minute of milk jug at 30 yards but with my son's identical gun I could smack jugs all day long at 60+ yards. Now with my favorite 50 caliber smoothbore [after proper load development] I can do the same to the jugs at up to 70 yards. With shot it is strictly a close quarters affair but the patterns hold tight and have taken one turkey at 20 yards. If you check your history books you will find small caliber flintlock smoothbores were more common than not. The early frontiersman didn't always have the means to afford a rifle and powder and shot/ball was not in great supply as it was for most organized armys which tended to use the larger calibers; over 62, for their purposes. Just my observation.