Rifled choke

[Ahsan Ahmed]

Rifled chokes are designed for sabots. They were not designed for rifled slugs. If he said anything other than that I disagree!

Well, I myself stand corrected then. Always figured that sabots will tumble beyond a very short distance despite the tiny rifling in that choke.

A little off topic, but those rifled tubes do not do a bad job at creating a spredder pattern for close range wing shooting. Peak inside an invector spreader tube and it is very similar to a rifled tube. I think they do a great job of pulling the wad away from the pay load.

Beretta (and some other European makers) do offer an Upland o/u model designed for Woodcock.....the bottom bbl has rifling.

Come to think of it, I'm gonna try the Benelli M2 slug gun and see how that works with game loads. It would be great if the fouling do not in anyway impact the performance of a sabot when that is shot afterwards.

 

[Covey Ridge]

Well, I myself stand corrected then. Always figured that sabots will tumble beyond a very short distance despite the tiny rifling in that choke.

I also understand that the sabot or actually the bullet tumbles within a short distance of leving the muzzle, but that is beside the point I was trying to make. Rifled tubes were designed for sabots (even though they really do not always work well) but they were never intended or recomended for rifled slugs.

Come to think of it, I'm gonna try the Benelli M2 slug gun and see how that works with game loads. It would be great if the fouling do not in anyway impact the performance of a sabot when that is shot afterwards.[/

I am not sure what type of shot pattern I would from a full length rifled bbl?

I have tried a few sabots out of a rifled 12 bore and even though the accuracy was quite impressive for a slug, life is too short to remove all the fouling that builds up from just a few shots.