ORIGINAL: biscuit jake
Frase, your smooth bore is not very likely to give you a good pattern for skeet as it has no choke. With small shot and bird shot, you have a shot column that can benefit by the shaping of some choke.
Buckshot, in those areas that allow it to be legal, is very effective on medium size game. I have heard deer hunters say that you need to pattern your shotgun & try to get 3 pellets minimum or so in your target of the 9, 12, or 15 that it has loaded in it. Otherwise, my experience with buckshot is in soldiering and I will skip that in this forum.
Good hunting.
Actually, remington slug barrels come with an improved cylinder RemChoke, and can be substituted for any size RemChoke tube, so in theory it can be used for any kinda shotgunning if the sights dont get in your way, but the short barrel isnt very well suited to shooting fast moving targets.
Buckshot isnt legal in Il where i am and dont know where it is legal, but i'd go with slugs before i'd shoot shot. More knockdown power, and more consistent accuracy at longer ranges, plus no need for a different choke tube.
Mat