Best 12G slugs to shoot???

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Just bought a Mossberg 500 with three barrels : 1. 28" duck barrel, 2. 24" Turkey barrel, 3. 24" fully rifled slug barrel.
Since we can hunt deer and black bear with a shotgun in BC. What are the good slugs to shoot? Can I shoot out to 150yds? I mounted a Leupold 4x33 on the cantilever slug barrel.
Thanks, new to slugs.
 
Sadly, because each gun/barrel is different, you are going to have to buy quite a few different brands and types of slugs and shoot them all thru your barrel to find out what it prefers and to what distance it will no longer hold a decent group. It will be a painful process...both physically and financially!
 
Thoe they are not meant for rifled barrels ..........out of a smooth bore buds, just try a few 3" federal slugs... so freaking awesome, you wont be disappointed ... my fave load...
i have made my own slug loads that match the muzzle flash and recoil/performance... but out of 2 3/4 inch hulls and a lee 1oz slug mold with bluedot.
Cost about 20 cents or 10 if the lead is free ;)
 
I have the same gun, and the best sabots for mine have turned out to be Remington Premier AccuTip 385 gr. But, you'll need to see what yours likes specifically.

I have a Bushnell Banner Dusk & Dawn 3-9x 40 mm on mine, and I can go out to 150 yds with it. But, I've never actually shot anything out at that range, so dunno, in real life. I've taken whitetail with it at around 100 yds, and absolutely no issues with it at that range, at all.
 
I use a Beretta Pintail semi-auto with 24" Rifled barrel with Winchester SSP12 Supreme Partition Gold Slugs, I easily achive groups less than 2" at 100yrds and less than 4" groups at 150 yards,...not a rifle for sure, but great for a slug gun.
The Beretta Pintail has the older Benelli SL80 design where the action and barrel are one piece (like a bolt action rifle), hence no need for a cantelever mount. and a much more accurate gun. I use a Bushnell 3200 1.5 x 4,...I zero in my scope at 100 yrds.
This ammo sells at LeBaron's for $ 12.72 for a box of 5, before tax.

Use Winchester's Ballistic Calculater too see results - http://ballisticscalculator.winchester.com/

Here is an article I found.

Winchester SSP12 Supreme Partition Gold Slugs

Second generation sabot slugs,in a 2 3/4 inch shell, and 385 grain (7/8 oz) hollowpoint slug. The slug is a copper jacketed 4-petal (notched hollowpoint) bullet of ~.50 caliber. It gives good expansion from the notched hollowpoint. The advertised velocity is 1900 fps at 3 ft.

This is a "magic bullet", although at a high price. It performs admirably with less than 2 inch groups at 100 yards and 3-4 inch groups at 200 yards. This was in my Remington Wingmaster 12 gauge pump with Hastings 24" rifled barrel and 4-12x by 42 scope. I zeroed it at 150 yards, and the ballistics tables showed a 6.8 inch drop at 200 yards. Actual performance was a 7.1 inch drop at 200 yards. If one wants to shoot a tight group, then use all the shells from the same box, because I noticed slight differences between boxes even though they were from the same manufacturing lot (bought from different places). There is no shotgun slug that equals the performance of this Winchester SSP12 shell. In fact, the SSP12 gives a far smaller group at 200 yards than the premium Federal shells can do at 100 yards.
 
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I use a Beretta Pintail semi-auto with 24" Rifled barrel with Winchester SSP12 Supreme Partition Gold Slugs, I easily achive groups less than 2" at 100yrds and less than 4" groups at 150 yards,...not a rifle for sure, but great for a slug gun.
The Beretta Pintail has the older Benelli SL80 design where the action and barrel are one piece (like a bolt action rifle), hence no need for a cantelever mount. and a much more accurate gun. I use a Bushnell 3200 1.5 x 4,...I zero in my scope at 100 yrds.
This ammo sells at LeBaron's for $ 12.72 for a box of 5, before tax.

Use Winchester's Ballistic Calculater too see results - http://ballisticscalculator.winchester.com/

Here is an article I found.

Winchester SSP12 Supreme Partition Gold Slugs

Second generation sabot slugs,in a 2 3/4 inch shell, and 385 grain (7/8 oz) hollowpoint slug. The slug is a copper jacketed 4-petal (notched hollowpoint) bullet of ~.50 caliber. It gives good expansion from the notched hollowpoint. The advertised velocity is 1900 fps at 3 ft.

This is a "magic bullet", although at a high price. It performs admirably with less than 2 inch groups at 100 yards and 3-4 inch groups at 200 yards. This was in my Remington Wingmaster 12 gauge pump with Hastings 24" rifled barrel and 4-12x by 42 scope. I zeroed it at 150 yards, and the ballistics tables showed a 6.8 inch drop at 200 yards. Actual performance was a 7.1 inch drop at 200 yards. If one wants to shoot a tight group, then use all the shells from the same box, because I noticed slight differences between boxes even though they were from the same manufacturing lot (bought from different places). There is no shotgun slug that equals the performance of this Winchester SSP12 shell. In fact, the SSP12 gives a far smaller group at 200 yards than the premium Federal shells can do at 100 yards.

This is the reason it is recommended to try different slugs as my a-bolt slug wont shoot supreme partitions worth a crap but federal trophy coppers are deadly. savage 212 shoots both equally so it depends on gun, there is no "magic slug"
 
This is the reason it is recommended to try different slugs as my a-bolt slug wont shoot supreme partitions worth a crap but federal trophy coppers are deadly. savage 212 shoots both equally so it depends on gun, there is no "magic slug"
Each gun is different indeed. I have a fully rifled M87 20 gauge barrel that I can throw onto an M37 Ithaca Featherlight.
With the forementioned Winchester Partition Gold sabot slugs, I can get almost rifle-like performance out of this shotgun.
 
Just bought a Mossberg 500 with three barrels : 1. 28" duck barrel, 2. 24" Turkey barrel, 3. 24" fully rifled slug barrel.
Since we can hunt deer and black bear with a shotgun in BC. What are the good slugs to shoot? Can I shoot out to 150yds? I mounted a Leupold 4x33 on the cantilever slug barrel.
Thanks, new to slugs.

IMHO-I/C choke on first two-Forster/Brenneke style slugs-sabot slugs on rifled barrel-test for accuracy-first 2-@75 yards max-rifled-maybe 125..
 
I do agree with buying several types to try, but skip the lead sled, they break gunstocks...

Cheers
Jay

yeah nothing like getting a nice rifle and then using one of those things and screw the stock up. if you cant deal with firing a few box's of ammo through it dont shoot it
 
I do agree with buying several types to try, but skip the lead sled, they break gunstocks...

Cheers
Jay
I use a mtm shoulder guard. Still recoils alot but helps me stay on target. Just add 20 pounds to knock some of they recoil down.
 
IF YOU RELOAD- try to get these later on--

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I'm going to try to find a way to get them at some dealers in Canada.Ed
 
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Different guns like different things, especially shotguns. Pick some of the ammo suggested here and see what works best for you.
 
Chuckhawks has an article on this. Just Google '12 guage shotgun accuracy' and it pops right up. He doesn't mention brand he just compares different types. It may be helpful.
 
Winchester Rackmasters. They work great out of both smoothbore and rifled barrels (they are a hybrid foster-sabot). Ive put them through 4 different shotguns and had great success out of each one of them. And they are significantly cheaper then sabots.
 
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