PGTMG
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- Jul 13, 2010
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I am looking for anyone with any experience hunting deer with a rifled choke in smoothbore barrel? Good or bad.
Are they worth the expense?
Thanks
Are they worth the expense?
Thanks
Savage 220 shoots 1" groups @ 100yds.
I have a Browning A-500 with a 24" rifle sight smoothbore I used to hunt deer in King George, VA with some years back. It never shot any slugs, Foster or Sabot better than an 6 - 8" group at 75 yds or so (iron sights). BUT...when I put in a screw in rifled choke tube and shot sabots, groups shrunk to under 3" at 75 yds. So, yeah...it works...or at least it did in my gun.
I bought one on clearance from Cabelas for my Mossberg 535 to attempt to use with some Sabot slugs I got as a gift. I saw zippy difference in accuracy at 50yds, and marginal difference in accuracy using it at 100yds.
As mentioned above, many do well enough with standard slugs, out of a smoothbore. I'm not sure they are worth the extra cost for the sabot ammo, unless you actually wanted to get a dedicated slug barrel.
At the time, I did read this article on it if it helps http://www.guns.com/2012/07/11/do-rifled-choke-tubes-improve-slug-accuracy/
--JB
While we're at it - what ammo are y'all using in these slug guns?
The thing about rifled slugs is, they only work in smooth bore guns. their rifling usually turns opposite of rifled bbls. Also, sabots only work if they have some sort of rifling to get the spinning.
Which is odd because I shoot plain old rifled slugs through my rifled barrel and they shoot very tight groups at 100 yards. Frankly, it (rifled slug barrel) throws regular old slugs and expensive sabots about the the same.
Brenneke 2 3/4 is what I have mostly used because of smooth bore barrels
Good on you, then. Most rifled slug boxes will read "for smooth or non rifled barrels" or something to that effect. Now, I admit that it's been a few years since I've shopped for rifled slugs and things may have changed. I have a Mossberg 12 ga. I used to hunt with, with a rifled bbl. only thing it would shoot well was a Brenneke 3" mags. It was a beast to shoot.
While we're at it - what ammo are y'all using in these slug guns?