I sort of did that. Most of my deer hunting is done on private land with a rifle but there is some public land near my home which is shot gun only. Not wanting to spend more money on a new gun that might be used a couple of days each fall and not every year, I took my 11-87 which I bought for turkey and thought that I could use it for deer as well. So I mounted a scope on it, bought a rifled choke tube and got some sabots. Before I fired the sabots I decided to use some rifled slugs to make sure that the scope was on the paper. It shot well with the rifled choke, cloverleaf at 50 yards and a bit bigger at 100. The sabots were not as consistent. So I went with the old style slugs and have killed 5 deer with it. The money I save on sabots lets me buy more slugs for practice. And, since I am using a 1 oz. slug which will put a serious hurt on anything it hits, I happily trade good shot placement for ballistic theory. And, oh yes, the 11-87 is now only used for deer hunting because I got a deal on a Bennelli which is now my turkey and goose gun.