Anybody make aftermarket 870 slug barrels?

[ninepointer]

Everytime I inquire about buying a fully-rifled cantilever slug barrel for my 870, I get the same response: "For the price, you can add a bit more money and buy yourself a used shotgun with a barrel combo."

Surely there must be somebody who makes a more affordable barrel for an 870, no? (If not, there may be an untapped market here.)

 

[Win/64]

Try Hastings.

 

[dutchhunter]

mossberg makes all the rem barrels now .DUTCH

 

[sillymike]

a 12"-14" rifled barrel would be kind of nice... Since the only thing I shoot out of the Grizzly are slugs.

 

[Beaner1976]

Ya same here.

a 12"-14" rifled barrel would be kind of nice... Since the only thing I shoot out of the Grizzly are slugs.

 

[tjhaile]

Mossberg is a source of barrels for 870s, but they don't make all Remington shotgun barrels.

 

[blasted_saber]

a 12"-14" rifled barrel would be kind of nice... Since the only thing I shoot out of the Grizzly are slugs.

Would a 12 inch rifled barrel even do anything to improve performance?

 

[woolly]

mossberg makes all the rem barrels now .DUTCH

Mossberg indeed has a cantilever 12 ga 870 barrel. 24" fully rifled $187.43 US MSRP. About 1/2 of what Remington wants.

http://www.mossberg.com/products/access.asp?type=barrels&section=access

Scroll down to the 870 section.

 

[Winchested]

You need 21"-24" to get a whole turn or 2 in the rifling in a shotgun a 12 or 14" rifled barrel would be useless.

 

[ninepointer]

Try Hastings.

Anybody sell Hastings barrels in Canada?

 

[onedayaway]

https://www.cabelas.ca/index.cfm?pageID=71&section=1187&section2=1281&section3=1457&ID=4827

24" fully rifled cantilever barrel $219 at cabels, but on back order.

 

[woolly]

Everytime I inquire about buying a fully-rifled cantilever slug barrel for my 870, I get the same response: "For the price, you can add a bit more money and buy yourself a used shotgun with a barrel combo."

Surely there must be somebody who makes a more affordable barrel for an 870, no? (If not, there may be an untapped market here.)

Try thegundealer.net in NB. He lists new Remington Super Slug barrels with a factory mounted scope for $299.99

http://thegundealer.net/barrels.htm

scroll all the way to the bottom.

 

[tjhaile]

You need 21"-24" to get a whole turn or 2 in the rifling in a shotgun a 12 or 14" rifled barrel would be useless.

The number of turns made by the rifling in a given barrel length is irrelevant. Whether or not a given projectile at a given velocity is stabilized is determined by the rate of twist, not the number of turns the rifleing makes within the barrel.

Most muzzleloader and slug barrels actually have rifling twists that do not make one full turn in the length of the barrel.

 

[sillymike]

I've seen improvement using a rifled choke tube... So I would guess a 12" barrel would be at least as good.