Previous template Next. Tags: None. You can use rifled slugs, like Remington Sluggers, if you have the right choke. If you have a screw in choke, just get a cylinder choke.
Comment Post Cancel. It depends on the barrel, the choke, and if you're a gambling man. If it doesn't on your gun or in your manual , then it depends on your choke. If you have interchangeable screw-on chokes, then put an open cylinder on it. Use a rifled slug, and be cautious. This is where the gambling part comes in, the slugs hopefully won't make your muzzle crack open, but it may damage the inside.
So shoot a few slugs, take your gun apart, and check if you have any damage to your barrel. If you take your chance, you may not have to buy any barrels, but if it goes wrong, you may need to buy a regular barrel and a slug barrel, not to mention the slim chance of a hospital visit. If it were me I might just go out and buy a slug barrel, and save a lot of potential hassle.
Hope this was helpful! If your bird barrel is improved cylinder you can use slug,s[oldschool] if not buy a slug barrel. Ozark Hunter. Jere Smith. Rifled lead slugs can be fired through any choke, though improved cylinder works best. I, personally, would avoid shooting slugs though a full or extra full choke tube. A rifled barrel allows you to shoot the more accurate sabot or copper-jacketed slugs. Hose Hosea. If you have a rifled barrel only shoot rifled slugs. Easy way to remember: only one thing barrel or slug should have rifling on it.
Whie you can shoot a rfled slug out of a rifled barrel the competing rifling on both the slug and the barrel may foul the gun and isn't as accurate as is a smooth slug in the rifled barrel. Originally posted by Hose Hosea View Post.
Right Rail 1. Top Active Users. Right Rail 2. Latest Topics. Its good violence. Its Democrat supported violence. While Brenneke and Foster slugs can be used in either smoothbore or rifled barrels with the drawback of fouling in rifled barrels , sabots are designed for use only in rifled shotgun barrels.
Since the sabot slug gets a boost from the rifled barrel, the range and accuracy of these slugs is significantly increased. The hollow point style slug features a tough, lead alloy core loaded to 1, feet per second. The compression style wad protects the slug at ignition and helps to seal the bore for maximum velocity.
The big advantage of using a slug is that it has a much longer effective range than buckshot. Additionally, shotgun slugs retain their energy better and typically penetrate much deeper than buckshot. A shotgun shooting a slug is also much more precise than a shotgun shooting buckshot. The effective range of rifled slugs is considerably less than that of saboted loads. But most shots taken at woodland deer are within yards.
Using a rifled or full-bore slug is no disadvantage at this relatively close range, but only if you can place the slug where you want it. Deadly accurate at yds and still accurate out to The only problem I had was that when you would shoot a deer right in the honey hole they would run off.
They would only go 50 to yards but the blood trails were minimal making tracking a job. Sabot slugs need to be spun up to get the accuracy they were designed for. They will work in a smoothbore, but not well. I can always get Remington slugs to shoot. So why use rifled slugs at all? The groves in the slug actually allow the projectile to fit through different chokes.
This allows hunters to use various barrels and still fire slugs. Without the grooves, the slug would cause greater friction in the barrel and would not function in various choke sizes. What it shows is that the 12 gauge slug will travel pretty flat for up to yards with perhaps 10 to 12 inches of drop at yards. At yards the chart shows a drop of about 4 feet. This was from a firearms study and suggests the absolute maximum a slug can travel is around feet yards. Because of their design with the plastic cylinder, the barrel rifling creates a much more stable trajectory that increases the accuracy and effective distance.
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