Muzzle Loader Or Rifled Slug Gun?

I'm not familiar with your hunting regs but here in Saskatchewan, muzzleloader will get you out in the field earlier than a shotgun will, in some zones.

Might or might not be a factor to consider. It's why I went with muzzleloader instead of a bolt slug gun.
 
my 870 with rifled barrel, scope and copper solids shoots 3" outside to outside groups. the HUGE problem with shooting slugs is 95% of hunters are too cheap to go drop a couple hundred bucks on a wide variety of slugs to see what shoots best. sure its pricey, but once you find the load your gun likes you're golden.

i've shot slugs in this same gun that would make nice little 10" groups at 100 yards. switch to remington copper solids and she shoots tight groups. but, this gun only likes 2 3/4" shells. the 3" copper solid will shoot about 4-5" groups so you can see how fussy they can be.
 
Get a Savage muzzleloader, 68grs H4198, a bore button and a saboted 300gr Hornady SST bullet. I think it will out perform any shotgun. It will also kick you harder than any shotgun.
 
Little bit of advice from a sabot shooter from back in the 80"s.

1/ stay away from Hastings products, Remington has a far better lands and grove design in their barrels.

2/ Slug guns have short barrels and on the most part Can Not burn all the powder in a 3 in slug before the slug has left the barrel, making a slug gun shoot different in every shot. 2 3/4 slugs will kill at 200 yards and are more accurate on paper as far as grouping.

3/ The larges problem with sabot shooting slug guns is that the plastic sleves on the sabots create plastic residue in the lands and groves of the barrel and tend to start and toss off groupings after every 10-12 shots and sometimes even some guns will only get 8-10 shots before the flyers start. Allways clean your barrels with a plastic residue cleaner like CVA plastic sabot cleaner, or Hopp's I believe have the same thing, for Muzzy's and black powder.

There is lots of angles in gun types here as the guys say , but more sabot barrels are sold because they can not keep a grouping because of the lack of residue cleaner in them.

I have put together a couple slug guns and now have a 12 and 20 gauge wingmasters that a proved themselves time after time in the first part of November..

Hope this helps...
 
I have a rifled slug gun and I will be buying the Savage smokeless ML this winter.

Slugs are too expensive to shoot with any regularity ( I have spent over $200 this fall on slugs alone).
 
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