Chokes and Slugs: Possible?

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Well I've been considering choking my HP9-1 for a while.
Still can't figure out what choke brand to use yet.
I was curious to know if slugs can be used with a choke installed?
Also, would porting a choked 14" barrel be a good idea?
I know I have many questions and I appreciate your patience.
Cheers,

-s9s
 
Your HP 9-1 has a cylinder bore and is good to shoot slug. And there are rifled choke are designed to shoot subot slugs from smooth bore choke system barrel. I haven't try any of those choke yet. But consider a 14" barrel is for close range defense and won't give you much accuracy at a longer range. May be you can check with Marstar to get one more choked barrel instead of pay a big buck to do modifly. I think a ported barrel looks cool on a shorty but sure won't help much.

Trigun
 
sixty9santa said:
Well I've been considering choking my HP9-1 for a while.
Still can't figure out what choke brand to use yet.
I was curious to know if slugs can be used with a choke installed?
Also, would porting a choked 14" barrel be a good idea?
I know I have many questions and I appreciate your patience.
Cheers,

-s9s
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Regarding the 14" barrel.

The chokes tend to go deep into the barrel and porting would be too far to the breech. With porting, you would be blasting yourself as well as everyone around you.

I suggest leaving it alone and have fun with it.

RePete.
 
the Valtro PM5 with a 14" barrel comes with ports however the chokes are external ie protrude in front of the mail barrel.

gas or ejecta sent out through the porting impinge on the front sight- (ramped-rifle type) and also on the forearm. it wipes off with solvent tho.

if you were to port and choke a 14 inch barrel, your porting wopuld have to start back from the choke point (say back of the 12 inch barrel mark). That far back you would need quite a bit more porting to reduce muzzle jump effectively than say a 26 inch barrel because you have less leverage. As Repete says this distance would increase your chances of ejecta hitting your hand.

I've fored slugs through a cylinder choke and a full choke and both worked OK.
 
Thanks guys, I think I'll invest in just choking (just have to buy the chokes as I could thread the barrel myself) and to get some Wilson Combat Ghost sights.
Also looking at mounting a steel rail on it for a red dot.
So much time, so little cash...the harsh life a student leads.
 
CH312 and JohnC are on the money, smoothbore/rifled slugs are either soft swaged or cast of soft enough lead to occlude the bore and still squeeze through a full choke. That being said, best accuracy with slugs will be seen with either a cylinder choke or a rifled choke. With a rifled choke you may experience some leading, but it's only 3" of choke so it's not hard to clean. A rifled choke will also allow you to shoot sabot slugs, which are much more accurate and effective at longer ranges than smoothbore slugs. Why you'd be concerned about long range accuracy with a 14" barrel blunderbuss I don't know, but there you have it :p As for porting, RePete said it all, and it sounds like you're on the right track anyway, so good call :cool:
 
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