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< 16ga. Guns ~ Slug accuracy |
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Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:17 am
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I don't know if this has been discussed on here, but it's something I find very interesting. Everyone says that cylinder or improved cylinder are the best chokes for shooting slugs, thinking that less constriction is better. This is not always the case. I was watching buffalo outdoors on yt, and he was shooting slugs through a 410. The slugs were keyholing, so he put in a tighter choke, and the problem went away. I have a slug barrel for my 870 16, and was despairing of ever getting good groups with it. I was shooting it with the ic choke that it came with. After watching the aforementioned video, I put in an improved mod choke, and the groups improved greatly. I think that sometimes slugs shoot better with some constriction. |
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Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:24 am
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LOTS of questions now!
Were you using factory slugs? What brand?
Were you using wadded slugs, forster slugs, brennke slugs. What.
I load the Lyman mould forster slugs, but many are now using slugs in wads.
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Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:29 am
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They were factory loads. Remington. |
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Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:31 am
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Just regular Foster slugs. Pumpkin balls. |
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Thu Dec 26, 2019 6:31 am
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Deer hunting in Ohio has always been a shotgun enterprise with slugs being the only option until the last few years. When I was a kid I used an old Winchester 120 Ranger with a fixed modified choke and it shot foster slugs like a dream. About 20 years ago I put a Burris 2x7 scope on a Winchester Black Shadow 1300 20 gauge, at 50 yards it shot 4" groups with a screw in modified choke. Fiddled with various chokes and on a whim screwed in an extended rifled choke tube to see what would happen. The little bit of spin that it throws on it right there at the end cut the groups in half and once I got it dialed in I haven't changed a thing on it since. It has been suggested that sabots can provide better accuracy still (and distance) but I have never tried them...can't stomach $5 a pop to find out. |
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Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:27 pm
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Location: Texas
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You guys are stuck in a time machine. I shoot riffled slugs out of a browning gold slug barrel and use light field slugs. 540 grain sabot. At 100 yards I can shoot 5 rounds and there will be a huge hole where the bulls eye used to be. 2” groups at 200 yards. Slugs have come along way. I have shot every brand available to order or buy and the light fields are the best with a riffled barrel |
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Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:40 pm
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RGuill96971 wrote: |
You guys are stuck in a time machine...
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Thanks! |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:44 pm
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but you're not doing all that with a 16. The only rifled slug barrel that I know of for the 16 is a few that were made by Ithaca. |
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Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:51 am
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You are correct sir, it’s a 12 but still amazing how accurate these slugs are. I haven’t shot any with a smooth bore, I would expect they would not do to bad with a riffled choke either. |
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Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:27 pm
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right on |
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Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:29 am
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I use Brenneke Rottweiler rifled slugs in my Browning 16s and Savage 16s....absolutely stunning accuracy, and I just use a plain bead sighted barrel, CYL or I/C choke, not a Buck Special barrel or anything like that. Devastating on whitetail out to 75yds....(maybe 100yds, but havent shot one out that far so i have no idea)....75yds is a LONG shot around here, and honestly at the time i thought he was ALOT closer than that. Cornfields can do that to you...really hard to judge range.
I think they go for about 5-7 dollars for a five pack of Brennekes around here. |
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