870 shotgun chokes

[savage M110 BAS]

I just purchased a 20'' barrel for my wingmaster 870 shotgun. it came with a modified choke and a rifles choke which I didn't know existed.

can someone please explain to me what can be shot out of what choke.?

I know full, modified, skeet chokes change the pattern density of birdshot but can you shoot things like SSG's or slugs from these chokes as well?

are sabot slugs ok to shoot with a rifled choke or do you need a full rifled shotgun barrel? can you shoot them with other chokes?

any help wold be greatly appreciated.

 

[WeaponHot]

MOD I usually use for trap or sporting clays depending on the course.
Sabot slugs are designed for rifled barrels. If you want to shoot slugs I would stick with Cylinder bore/Skeet/Imp Cylinder chokes just to be safe. And use rifled slugs if you have a smooth bore bbl.
I don't think shooting sabot slugs through a smooth bore bbl would do any harm, seems rather pointless because they were designed to be shot out of a riffled bbl. You would just be throwing money down range without any consistent results.

 

[savage M110 BAS]

what about rifled choke tubes? are they ok to shoot sabot rounds through.
the original wingmaster barrel if im not mistaken has a full choke, is that ok to shoot rifled slugs and buckshot through?

 

[red_bailey]

what about rifled choke tubes? are they ok to shoot sabot rounds through.

That's what the Rifled choke is made for: it replicates a barrel which has rifling down its entire length. Remington makes a Rifled and an Extended Rifled, which is a bit longer and thus has more groove surface, but neither is more than a pale substitute for a real deer barrel. Give it a try; there is nothing quite as satisfying as launching those hefty lead rockets into pretty little groups at 75m (but at 3 or 4 bucks apiece it's a costly luxury).

the original wingmaster barrel if im not mistaken has a full choke, is that ok to shoot rifled slugs and buckshot through?

Yes, should be good with an 870 barrel with fixed Full choke. May not pattern/group the best, but Foster slugs are designed to swage down to the choke diameter and do so rather well. Brenneke slugs are not hollow and thus do not de-form as much, but they're not going to get plugged in your barrel, just if you fire lots and lots of them you might eventually wear the choke out a little wider.

If we're talking about a removable Full choke, take it out and put in a Mod or bigger, because it seems you can blow out the threads if you force too much through. And if it's an old laminated steel gun, I certainly wouldn't be firing high-pressure slugs through a tight constriction, but any Wingmaster barrel will be okay.