Modified Choke with slugs?
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Turkeyslayer 1300
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Rifled or foster slugs will be fine through any choke up to full, sabot slugs should only really be shot out of rifled barrels.
My 870 actually shoots better slug groups using the modified choke tube than the improved cylinder one.
Slugs are made to pass through chokes. With the exception of some extra-full chokes, any barrel in shootable condition can be used with slugs without damage.
Slugs are made to pass through chokes. With the exception of some extra-full chokes, any barrel in shootable condition can be used with slugs without damage.
Turkeyslayer 1300
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That is not correct. Tell me the difference between a solid 1 oz lead slug and 1 oz of lead shot?
Yep. But try an IC (improved cylinder) you may find better groups with this choke compared to the others. This has been my experience..
I disagree. I've fired hundreds of slugs through a full choke barrel and nothing was damaged. The lead slug is designed to collapse and form to the barrel to prevent damage. This is the primary function of the ribs - secondary is to assist trajectory/flight.
Don't do it. I shot at a coyote with slugs thru my mod, thinking I would be OK becfause that's what I'd been told. What happened was the slugs snugged up the choke tube so tight it took me two days and a s**t load of WD40 to get it loose again (almost 1/4 turn past wrench tight!). I assume the friction from the spinning slug was enough to really torque on that choke tube. And I only fired two shots. Mod is too tight.
Interstitial space. A ten thousandth of an inch of air between two pieces of shot makes a lot of difference when there's 150 odd pellets in there or whatever. Shot can compress a hell of a lot more than solid lead. Don't do it!
canucklehead
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Mod is NOT too tight.
I shoot slugs through full chokes with no ill effects. Slugs don't spin in smoothbore barrels.
Turkeyslayer 1300
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Slugs don't spin in the barrel, the "rifleing" is to allow the slug to swage down so it will pass through the choke.
Even if a slug did spin down the barrel you are telling me that some how it tightened down the choke that much. I would wager that your threads were dirty and that was it.
You can shot all the slugs you want thru a full choke .the ribs on the slugs are menbt to crush and fill the barel keeping the gas from escaping around the slug ..how many guns hunted deer 30 yers ago with full choke guns as thy did not have screwins back then you shot what you had mad will be fine for slugs dutch
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Please explain how soft lead is going to enlarge a hardened steel choke?
Is it going to wear away the steel like sand paper or a file? NO!
Is it going to force the steel choke to expand? NO
You do realize that most lead bullets, and even copper jacketed bullets fired out of rifles and handguns are slightly oversized to the bore, don't you?
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Please explain how soft lead is going to enlarge a hardened steel choke?
Is it going to wear away the steel like sand paper or a file? NO!
Is it going to force the steel choke to expand? NO
You do realize that most lead bullets, and even copper jacketed bullets fired out of rifles and handguns are slightly oversized to the bore, don't you?
Just a recap for the OP when he/she decides to return to this thread..
I didn't say it enlarged the steel. That would have been stupid. And I'm not stupid. I'm saying that a 2 3/4'' federal factory slug TIGHTENED my MOD choke tube about 1/4 turn past wrench tight after 2 rounds. If that's not a good reason not to shoot slugs out of a mod, let alone a full, I don't know what is? Common sense. If you're shooting a smoothbore, maybe you can get away with it.
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Well I have shot lots of slugs out of my maverick 88 with a 28 inch vent ribbed barrel with a modified choke! I actually find my choke comes loose on its own and has to be tightened every outting!
Maby your choke was loose and the slug screwed up the threads? Who knows.
You may indeed be telling the truth but your experience doesn't mean it is the case in every situation!
Maby your choke was loose and the slug screwed up the threads? Who knows.
You may indeed be telling the truth but your experience doesn't mean it is the case in every situation!
bearkilr
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I'd say you have issues with the threading in your bbl. for the chokes, not the slug. You can't go past wrench tight unless you have other problems.
Is your gun not a smoothbore? Rifled bbls don't have choke tubes, at least not any I know of.
My 870 special Field shoots slugs best out of a full choke, Benelli M4 best with a mod. That's the beauty of choked bbls, you can experiment with whatever constriction works best.
My understanding is that the fins/vanes on rifled slugs are there for air to spin the slug as there is no rifling for twist.
Saboted slugs don't do well out of a smoothbore, for obvious reasons, though it's by no means dangerous to fire them out of a smoothbore.
blasted_saber
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So what? Ive seen chokes become too tight just by shooting light shot. It has way mroe to so with maintenance and cleaning then what you are shooting.
