Foster slugs. . . why the he** aren't they lubricated????

[fat tony]

next trip to the range I'm going to bring a cleaning rod with a swab and a tube of Traditions bore butter, my plan is to swab after every shot or so, so I can have a range session that goes for more than 4 rounds without accuracy going out the window, for the sake of interest, I have a 5 pack of 1950's Imperial slugs with the paper cases, the slugs (logically to me anyways) appear to have a coat of lube on them.

 

[870P]

I've found that Brenneke style slugs with their much harder lead are a lot better when it comes to leading, more accurate too.

 

[Boomer]

It could be that the wax coating from the old paper shells has extruded onto the slugs.

 

[B]

This is the first I have ever heard of this problem.

 

[JohnC]

This is the first I have ever heard of this problem.

Ditto. Never had issues with Remington, Federal, or Winchester Forsterd

 

[fat tony]

well I'll have to try it out again, maybe it was me. . .

 

[hansol]

Are we talking foster sugs in a smoothbore?

 

[ben hunchak]

Good question, i don't think that a good lube could hurt, might do some good.

 

[blasted_saber]

Never had an issue with Winchester slugs

 

[ahlsy]

I put about 25 Winchester slugs through my 870 a couple weeks ago and it took about 30 minutes of scrubbing to get the lead out of the barrel when I got home. There was so much lead stuck in there it was hard to believe the last few shots even left the barrel.

 

[Woodsman]

There's always a terrible amount of leading with most foster slugs after repeated firings. Beats me why they don't lube them.

 

[fat tony]

I put about 25 Winchester slugs through my 870 a couple weeks ago and it took about 30 minutes of scrubbing to get the lead out of the barrel when I got home. There was so much lead stuck in there it was hard to believe the last few shots even left the barrel.

^that's what I'm talking about.

 

[Huntsman]

T/C Bore Butter

I tried the exact same thing last summer. I was shooting my Win. 1200 with deer bbl, Carlsons RCT and Win. 1oz slugs.
I swabbed the bbl between shots and was able to obtain 3 shots touching at 50yds. Clean up was a bit easier too along with the aid of "Shooters Choice" Lead Solvent . I found the RCT really collected a good coating of lead.
I will continue shooting my Foster's this way

 

[fat tony]

I tried getting some T/C bore butter, but don't you know I tried ordering it through a US outfit - wat do you know it was restricted. - so I ended up with the Traditions Bore butter It's too bad we can't get the Dixie slugs up here, they have some very interesting slugs available, look at this one:

http://www.dixieslugs.com/products.html

It should be okay to post this link as we CAN'T ORDER FROM THEM.

 

[Huntsman]

I read about the "Dixie's" on Shotgun World. It would also be nice if we could get Hastings Slugs up here too.
TC B.B. is available thru Bass Pro and SIR/Cabelas.

 

[fat tony]

I could have looked a little harder, oh well the Traditions stuff will work fine I'm sure.