Hunting with a slug gun

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I am looking at hunting with a slug gun next fall. I am looking at a 24 inch rifled barrel for my mossberg 500, and mounting a scope on it. What kind of groups can be expected on this set up, at 50,100 and 150 yards? Whats the maximum range a slug gun should be used at?
 
Much depends if you are going to use a smooth bore open choke barrel or a rifled barrel. The best I have ever done with foster slugs from a smooth bore is about 3.5" at 100 yards. This was from a short barrelled shotgun with rifle sights, not a scope, shooting Winchester 23/4" factory slug loads.

Big Red has much more experience in the area of slugs through rifled barrels, and it seems to me he is getting good accuracy out to 200 yards with some loads.
 
Boomer said:
Big Red has much more experience in the area of slugs through rifled barrels, and it seems to me he is getting good accuracy out to 200 yards with some loads.
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They should get BIGREDD to do a info-post on slug guns and give it sticky.

This question comes up just about weekly. :runaway:




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The Mossberg Rifled barrels are fair barrels.
With good glass and the right slugs you should have a solid 150+ yard big game gun.
I like the Remington Core-Locked Ultra Sabots...Controlled expansion and 1900 fps with good accuracy. In most guns you could expect to shoot 4-5 inch groups.... minute of deer.
Of course some are better than others... the quality of the trigger, how and where the scope is mounted, the marriage of the barrel to the reciever, barrel length and harmonics as well as the rate of twist all come into play with accuracy in slugguns.

Here is the most important advice for sabot slug shooters!
If you don't clean the plastic fouling out every 6 shots you might as well throw stones because your accuracy will be that bad. And any regular solvent will not touch the plastic fouling left by sabot slugs... you must get some sabot solvent for this job!
Shooters Choice Choke Tube and Barrel cleaner for Plastic works great!
 
X2 on what BigRedd has said. I have hunted with slugs for the past 15 years. Up until last year i only hunted with rifled slugs. I had no problem at groups of 3" @ 100yds. 20" barrel and a mouted scope is what i used. I have shot deer out to 140 yards with it. Average range for a rifled slug for accurate shooting 60-100yds in my book by I have heard others say less. I switched to sabots last year but didn't buy the top end ones. I didn't do much research, and the sabots i were shooting had terrible accuracy past 120yds. So I kept a 100yd approx limit on my shooting. Two of the guys i hunted with last year also shoot sabot slugs, one of them shooting the slugs BigRedd described. They were shooting at ease @ 180yds (max). This year i will be switching. Once the weather changes to a little warmer, it will be pratice time again.




BIGREDD said:
The Mossberg Rifled barrels are fair barrels.
With good glass and the right slugs you should have a solid 150+ yard big game gun.
I like the Remington Core-Locked Ultra Sabots...Controlled expansion and 1900 fps with good accuracy. In most guns you could expect to shoot 4-5 inch groups.... minute of deer.
Of course some are better than others... the quality of the trigger, how and where the scope is mounted, the marriage of the barrel to the reciever, barrel length and harmonics as well as the rate of twist all come into play with accuracy in slugguns.

Here is the most important advice for sabot slug shooters!
If you don't clean the plastic fouling out every 6 shots you might as well throw stones because your accuracy will be that bad. And any regular solvent will not touch the plastic fouling left by sabot slugs... you must get some sabot solvent for this job!
Shooters Choice Choke Tube and Barrel cleaner for Plastic works great!
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