Hey Experts,
I'm looking for the slug available for a smooth bore and what is the best for rifled barrels.
My entire family runs 870's mainly smooth bore slug barrels. (I run a rifled barrel and am content with my loads). We simply wanted to extend the point of zero out to 75 yards.
Originally,
Range: 55 yards
Round: Challenger 2 3/4" MAGNUM (1 1/8oz @ 1610fps)
Group: Roughly 2"
With this set up, the gun in question knocked down 3 deer and challenger slugs knocked down all of our deer without question.
When we went to make the adjustments we fired a round at 50 yards to make sure the sights were still on. Dad was on his gun and I was on the scope. When the first shot was fired, the board moved but i couldn't see any hole in the 1/4" plywood. The second shot didn't even hit the board it went HIGH and RIGHT and the third round went through the board but no where near paper.
When i walked up the the target I couldn't believe what I saw. The round that made teh board move didn't go throughthe board but i could clearly see where it had indented the paper and the slug was lying on the ground at the bottom of the target.
I'm assuming it was a bad box of rounds but we tried a second box out of a different gun and the pattern wasn't all that impressive as it was originally either.
I'm looking for the slug available for a smooth bore and what is the best for rifled barrels.
My entire family runs 870's mainly smooth bore slug barrels. (I run a rifled barrel and am content with my loads). We simply wanted to extend the point of zero out to 75 yards.
Originally,
Range: 55 yards
Round: Challenger 2 3/4" MAGNUM (1 1/8oz @ 1610fps)
Group: Roughly 2"
With this set up, the gun in question knocked down 3 deer and challenger slugs knocked down all of our deer without question.
When we went to make the adjustments we fired a round at 50 yards to make sure the sights were still on. Dad was on his gun and I was on the scope. When the first shot was fired, the board moved but i couldn't see any hole in the 1/4" plywood. The second shot didn't even hit the board it went HIGH and RIGHT and the third round went through the board but no where near paper.
When i walked up the the target I couldn't believe what I saw. The round that made teh board move didn't go throughthe board but i could clearly see where it had indented the paper and the slug was lying on the ground at the bottom of the target.
I'm assuming it was a bad box of rounds but we tried a second box out of a different gun and the pattern wasn't all that impressive as it was originally either.


















































