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Question on using slugs

Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:20 pm
Posted by fishfighter
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Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:20 pm
Has anyone ever shot slugs out of there shotgun that has choke tubes?

Guess I could google that, but looking first hand.
Posted by Choirboy
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Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:20 pm to
Use the most open bore tube you have.
Posted by wiltznucs
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Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:22 pm to
Improved Cylinder... If its a saboted slug you should be using a rifled barrel...
This post was edited on 1/13/13 at 3:23 pm
Posted by Boats n Hose
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Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:38 pm to
quote:

Use the most open bore tube you have.
Posted by CP3
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Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:38 pm to
My buddy shot one out of his nova with a choke in it, but I'm not sure which choke it was.

He's got a nice little bubble at the end of the barrel now, and the choke is in there for good.
Posted by Tiger 79
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Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:52 pm to
I've shot all the deer I've killed with slugs. I was using Imp Cyl but then bought a rifled choke tube for my Browning.

I keep foster type slugs in a pie pan at 50 yards. I don't shoot any further so I'm good with them.

Winchester makes a 1650 fps hollow point slug for smooth bores and it is an accurate sumbitch outta my Browning.

Buy a few different brands, shot em and see which ones do best out of your gun. I have a youth model Mossberg 500 that I had bought for my wife before she died to hunt with me. It had a rifled barrel. I found out that it frickin hated Hornady SST sabots as well as Federal/Barnes Expander sabots. Ended up using Brenneke's and it liked them the best.

Posted by CoastieGM
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 2/22/13 at 12:09 pm to
I've had an old long barrel bolt action .410 since I was a teen. Stamped on the barrel is "Full Choke", but there is screw-in/removable choke.

I've fired slugs out of it for decades. It'll hit a paper plate every time at 75 yards. I used to nail small/medium deer at up to 45 yards with it.

Perhaps since slugs are hollow, they compress when going through a choke? I dunno. I just know it worked quite well.
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