really stupid question

The most common types of slugs, foster, Brenneke, and Challenger will safely swage down when fired through a choke up to a normal full choke. Accuracy however is most often the best with no choke or just a slight amount of constriction from an improved cyclinder choke.
 
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If it has screw in chokes they make choke tubes for slugs.If not it would depend on how tight the choke is. Improved or mod should work
 
does it matter what shotgun it is firing out of? i've got an old ass single shot by H&R. Looks like the barrel is tapering down quiet a bit at the end.
 
next stupid one.
how do i know what kind of slug is in there? I got some hollow point and rifled slugs... dont think the box specified it was foster or not.
 
Brenneke and Challenger slugs are only loaded by those respective companies. The foster slug is the slug most often encountered in the North American market for smooth bore barrels and is loaded by Federal as the Power Shok, Winchester as Super X Rifled Slugs, and Remington as the Slugger.
 
That's not a stupid question at all. When I was getting back into using a shotgun I informed my dad (who's very knowledgeable about rifles) that I intended to pack a few slugs with me when I was hunting birds with my shotgun; this on the off-chance that I saw the deer or elk of my life with only a shotgun in my hands. He said flat out "Don't be a fool, you'll burst your barrel!" This is of course wrong, but he thought it to be absolutely correct. The only barrier to obtaining knowledge is the presumption that you already know it,
Mike
 
I have never shot slugs out of my 28" Rem 870 (mod and full choke).
Now I am curious of what kind of accuracy could I expect?

I know my HP9 shoots minute of gopher out to 30ish yards with Winchester Slugs :D
 
thanks guys, appreciate the quick responses.

i'm just trying to figure out if i want to get a rifled barrel for my mossberg 930, or if i can just get a rifled choke tube for it to shoot slugs with. i suppose a rifled barrel is optimal but money is an issue as well. can you mess up a rifled barrel if you shoot steel shot through it ? and do rifled barrels have choke tubes?

another question.... so say i want to shoot waterfowl, would i want to get an after market choke(s) that is better suited for shooting steel shot, or are the factory chokes fine with steel shot?

not sure why i would do this, but if you shoot with no choke in, will lead shot screw up the threading?
 
there was range report here somewhere with shot through rifled barrel. pattern ended up having a huge circle of shot around almost nothing in the middle. just for that reason it would be bad.
 
Mossberg barrels are cheap and if you get the cantilever it's an easy switch from duck gun to slugs. Rifled barrels don't have chokes and use only for slugs. Your factory chokes should work great for waterfowling, the only way to know for sure is to pattern your gun at the range. NEVER shoot your shotgun without a choke in it.


crocker038 said:
thanks guys, appreciate the quick responses.

i'm just trying to figure out if i want to get a rifled barrel for my mossberg 930, or if i can just get a rifled choke tube for it to shoot slugs with. i suppose a rifled barrel is optimal but money is an issue as well. can you mess up a rifled barrel if you shoot steel shot through it ? and do rifled barrels have choke tubes?

another question.... so say i want to shoot waterfowl, would i want to get an after market choke(s) that is better suited for shooting steel shot, or are the factory chokes fine with steel shot?

not sure why i would do this, but if you shoot with no choke in, will lead shot screw up the threading?
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Slugs in a shotgun can be very accurate and deadly. I've dropped 5 deer with 6 slugs and won't change a thing! Just recently bought a 870 Sure Shot turkey gun. Got adventurous one day and put an IC in it and went to the range. Using some Federal HyShok slugs, I could cover my 5 shot group at 50 yds with my hand!
 
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