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Question on using slugs
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:20 pm
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.
Guess I could google that, but looking first hand.
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Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:20 pm to fishfighter
Use the most open bore tube you have.
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:22 pm to Choirboy
What choirboy said
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:22 pm to fishfighter
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 on 1/13/13 at 3:29 pm to wiltznucs
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Improved Cylinder...
This is what I'm using, not using saboted slugs. Lost a nice hog due to using buckshot today and I had a few slugs with me which would of been better.
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:31 pm to fishfighter
Non-saboted slugs are terribly inaccurate, they drop very quickly. One of those cases where your better off with a rifle....
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:38 pm to fishfighter
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Use the most open bore tube you have.
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:38 pm to fishfighter
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.
He's got a nice little bubble at the end of the barrel now, and the choke is in there for good.
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:41 pm to CP3
Benelli manual and website recommends cylinder IIRC, but the gun doesn't come with that one, and I believe I read you can use IC for slugs. That's what I put in when I load slugs, but I've never actually fired one. Just did a few swamp hunts where I had them in and didn't see a deer.
Posted on 1/13/13 at 3:52 pm to fishfighter
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.
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 on 1/13/13 at 4:52 pm to wiltznucs
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Non-saboted slugs are terribly inaccurate, they drop very quickly. One of those cases where your better off with a rifle....
Was duck hunting first. Should of had my .44 mag with me, but due to the high water I'm hunting in, it would of been underwater.
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Non-saboted slugs are terribly inaccurate, they drop very quickly.
Of course a rifle is better and yes, I know they shoot like shite. Only killed a couple deer with them many years ago. They do make one hell of a hole.
That is the reason I lost the hog today due to a lack of a blood trail using buckshot. shite load of water everywere. Oh, if I were using my very old 870 wingmaster that only shoots 3", but has a 30" barral with full choke, that sucker would of not gone far. That sucker rolled many a deer with buckshot over the years.
This post was edited on 1/13/13 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 1/13/13 at 5:03 pm to fishfighter
Just remember that those slugs kick like an army mule
Posted on 1/13/13 at 5:07 pm to fishfighter
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Only killed a couple deer with them many years ago. They do make one hell of a hole.
Like this one?
Posted on 1/13/13 at 5:11 pm to Tiger 79
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Like this one?
Yes.
Posted on 2/22/13 at 5:46 am to Tiger 79
Woulda been a goodun next year
Posted on 2/22/13 at 5:49 am to Choirboy
You dug way back for this one
Posted on 2/22/13 at 7:28 am to Boats n Hose
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Boats n Hose
my sbe came with the cyl choke, improved, mod, improved-mod, and full. i've shot slugs once out of the improved without any problem but i wouldn't do it again.
i put a 22" smooth bore cyl barrel, ported with sights on an old mossberg 500 for my slug gun. 3" loads are real BLAST to shoot!
Posted on 2/22/13 at 12:09 pm to fishfighter
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.
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.
Posted on 2/22/13 at 12:50 pm to fishfighter
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Was duck hunting first.
Can you have lead slugs on you while duck hunting? I thought you couldn't even have them on you.
But I haven't hunted back home in LONG time.
Posted on 2/22/13 at 1:52 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
I bought a H and R single shot with a riffled barrel for $235. Its deadly out to 150 yards.
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