RE: slugs or buckshot?
I vote no on buckshot past 50 yards.
When I was a kid here in Alabama almost everyone hunted deer with dogs and shotguns with buckshot where the most common firearm in the woods. I have used it to kill many deer in my early days. Buckshot is indeed lethal at short range (0-40 yards) but it runs out of steam very very fast. Yes I have seen deer killed out past 50 yards but I have seen a lot lost at that distance too. 75 yards? Thats ridiculously irresponcible with any type of buckshot or choke combination. You would be lucky to put one pellet in a deer at that distance and even then you would have little to no control over where that pellet hit them or how much it penetrated. I've seen several shotguns that would shoot buckshot so well that they would put all 20 pellets from a number 1 buckshot shell in the bottem of an oil case box at 40 yards but even the people who owned those guns would never have taken a 75 yard shot.