Lee,
Come to Maine. I'll make a rifleman out of you yet....
Honestly, I own as many smoothbores as rifles. My preference is the smoothbore. Mostly because of their utility.
Rifles are, and will always be the superior weapon ... I can load a smoothbore at about 3 shots a minute and shoot minute of pie plate at 25 yards. I'm pretty good at this.
I can do the same with a rifle and shoot a group at 100 yards that would take a man's heart out. I'm not so good at this....
For everyone, don't believe the stories, until you've shouldered the guns...
Steve