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I have recieved very good pointers and tips from this commity so i was hopeing if i could get some more answers?
I had bought my dad a shotgun for christmas last year and he wanted to know if he had a rifled barrel and shot his 12g slug from it how far and accurate would it get to. so i told him that if he used the right ammunition and good scope sitghting he could get up to 150 yards and lower accuratly. HE bought the new hornady sst 12g slugs for his shot gun.. how many yards will the slugs shoot accuratly?( He will be hunting mostly whitetail-deer and blackbear)
 
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Out to a 100 yrds would be the limit I would attempt, however this has been debated on this site before. The bullet after a 100 yards would drop rapidly in velocity, placement and energy. Some would argue it'll be good out to 150.
 
The accuracy of rifled shotgun barrels is astounding. It's comparable to any rifle using factory ammo. However, like any rifle you have to try as many brands of ammo as you can to find the ammo your Da's shotgun shoots best. Two inch groups and less at 100 yards isn't unusual. Two to 3" is accurate enough for deer though. Hornady claims you can sight in at 150 with the SST and be only 2.7" high at 100. 6.7" low at 200. That'll do nicely for deer and bear.
If you have only 100 yards to sight in at, sight in 2.7" high and your Da will be on target at 150.
 
Using at least a 24" 1:28 twist "cantilevered" or "permanently attached to receiver" rifled barrel... with a good quality scope of 7X or higher... preferably 9X... your gun should be capable of 2-3 MOA at a hundred yards. And therefore it is possible to shoot a 1700-1900fps slug inside 6 inches at 150-200 yards.
Provided that you are well practiced and can handle the recoil of a high velocity slug... that you know the ballistics and understand the gyro effect of sabot slugs/bullets in your particular gun. And realize that plastic sabots can foul a barrel with plastic residue in as little as three shots and that you need to use plastic solvent to remove it in order to shoot sabot slugs with consistency.:popCorn:

Oh yeah... Hornady SST's... not a good choice for big game! They can be accurate... but they are too frangible and don't have a good reputation for consistency at any range!:bangHead:
 
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You know slug guns are my thing... and I think he is asking the good questions. But shooting slug guns at long range and effectively killing big game is a lot more than reading the ballistic tables on a box of shells.
Most slug barrels are 20 inches... not optimum... and using these barrels you can expect to get about 1450 fps out of a slug that is advertised at 1900 or 2000 fps (from a 24" test barrel!). I have chronied them all!
If you let that same barrel build up with plastic you will lose another 100 fps in only a few shots. You can see where I am going with this... How are those ballistics even valid if you are at 2/3rds or less of the claimed velocity.
There is a lot more to shooting slugs accurately and at long range than many people understand or would have you believe!
 
I have a .410 Ranger single shot that sits on the dash of the truck when I'm up North Moose hunting, just for 'road' Grouse/camp meat. In reality, over the years I've probably got more Grouse with it than I have with my English SxS.
Anyway, in line with the discussion on slugs, a friend just brought me some, Imperial 2 1/2". Anyone have any experience with this load? What weight of slug? What would you or have you used them on?
Oh, he also brought me a pack of five .410 Buckshot loads, by Olin.
 
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