Rifled barrel for Grizzly?

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I was buying ammo for my first range session with my 8.5 Grizzly and found some slugs that suggested they worked best through a rifled barrel.

I know there are problems with using rifled barrels with shot, but it seems to me that a rifled slug barrel would be a GREAT aftermarket accessory... I certainly know what I'll be wishing for next Xmas...

Comments?
 
I got a rifled choke tube that I can install on my 12.5" grizzly barrel, though there's a tiny bit of movement that leaves me wondering as to the gun's potential accuracy beyond normal smooth bore ranges. I settled with using the supplied choke tube and get decent accuracy out to 50 yards, where I can confidently hit the vital zone of a deer.

With a simple red dot sight on the 8.5" I would hazard a guess that slugs would shoot okay for self defence ranges and would include a few alongside some birdshot if carrying it as a personal defence and small game of opportunity hiking/hunting shotgun. I'm not so sure if, considering the already decreased velocity from the short barrel, whether there'd be much point to producing a rifled barrel for the 8.5"

It might be possible to have a gunsmith thread the barrel for choke tubes, in which case you could install a rifled tube.

Regards,

Frank
 
Rifled barrels can produce good accuracy, but a tight lock up would help. You could probably fit a Remington 870 rifled barrel on the grizzly. I've mostly heard about dedicated single shot rifled slug guns as rifle replacements in shotgun only zones. It would be an interesting novelty with the grizzly, but ammo cost can stack up pretty quick with sabot rounds. :(
 
Regular remington barrel won't fit an 8.5 since the mag tube has been shortened. Best to go 12.5 since then you can pick and choose your barrel length. You would need to go awful high for a front sight on an 8.5 if you want to use irons, a red dot would probably be best
 
Tengoo said:
I was buying ammo for my first range session with my 8.5 Grizzly and found some slugs that suggested they worked best through a rifled barrel.

I know there are problems with using rifled barrels with shot, but it seems to me that a rifled slug barrel would be a GREAT aftermarket accessory... I certainly know what I'll be wishing for next Xmas...

Comments?
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You are not confusing 'rifled slugs' with slugs 'suggested to be shot out rifled barrel', are you?
 
By slugs meant to be shot through a rifled barrel do you mean sabot slugs? Just shoot rifled slugs out of the smooth bore barrel. I wouldnt expect Canadaammo to get rifled barrels made. An 8.5 barreled gun isn't really going to be the most accurate thing going regardless
 
Blegend said:
By slugs meant to be shot through a rifled barrel do you mean sabot slugs? Just shoot rifled slugs out of the smooth bore barrel. I wouldnt expect Canadaammo to get rifled barrels made. An 8.5 barreled gun isn't really going to be the most accurate thing going regardless
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Sabots...? Yes, apparently that's what I mean. I'd be interested to find out what the difference in accuracy would be...
 
Sabot slugs are smooth intended to be spun by the rifling in the barrel, same as a rifle bullet. Rifled slugs have the rifling on the lead itself to compensate for the lack of rifling in the barrel. Rifled barrel with sabot slugs should be more accurate.
 
Out of my 8.5 mounted with a Sparc at 40 metres, it put 10 cheaps slugs in a 6 inch target, good enough for me so a buckshot pattern of 40 inch would very deadly out of an 8.5 at 40 metres... Cheers. JP.
 
Tengoo said:
Negative. However I am under the impression that slugs [sabots?] fired from a rifled barrel are superior [in accuracy and power] to rifled slugs fired from a smoothbore.
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Tengoo said:
Sabots...? Yes, apparently that's what I mean. I'd be interested to find out what the difference in accuracy would be...
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That could be expensive to compare. You would need barrels of the same length and sighting system. For example a Remington 870 with a 20" smooth bore barrel with rifle sights and a 20" rifled barrel with rifle sights. And each barrel cost about 2/3 the price of a whole new gun! For reference the best I got was 1" to 1.5" groups at 50m with a 870 and rifled barrel with a scope. And the ammo cost about $12 to $18 a box of 5 rounds! :eek: It's definitely a specialized area gun only.
 
Blegend said:
Sabot slugs are smooth intended to be spun by the rifling in the barrel, same as a rifle bullet. Rifled slugs have the rifling on the lead itself to compensate for the lack of rifling in the barrel. Rifled barrel with sabot slugs should be more accurate.
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Actually, the rifling on the slug is to let is swage down easily as it passes through the choke, it has nothing to do with spin stabilizing the projectile.


Mark
 
Just an FYI before you go and spend a ton of bucks on a rifled barrel. My wife has an 879 with rifled barrel. I have a Browning BPS smoothbore. Out to 50 yds, using Challenger slugs, the BPS will outshoot the 870. the Browning consistently tears one large ragged hole (about 3-4") at 50 yds. At 100 yds, the 870 will do a LITTLE better than the BPS. As far as slugs for rifled barrels, Rem makes one, I think it's the Buckhammer, that is not a sabot, but meant to fire from a rifled tube, that is just slightly more expensive than the cheapo's.

Anyhow, after a bunch of testing, I'm not going to cough up the bucks for a rifled tube for my Browning.
 
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