Recommend a sabot to me...

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Hey guys.

I've got a Winchester 1300 with a rifled barrel. For the amount of use it gets, I can afford to make the switch to sabots, but I don't have the money to try every sabot under the sun to find out what's best.

It would just be for whitetail. Range inside 125 yards. 2 3/4 or 3 doesn't matter.

What do you think?
 
Lightfield & Dixie are superb performers on the big stuff, in case of big bear encounters & for deer and such, they work great out at more than 150 yds. Only problem is sourcing them in Canuckistan. The Winchester Platinum Tip, 2 3/4" 400 gr. loads shoot dang straight & basically equal the modern .45-70 loads as far as whump is concerned at 125+ yds.
 
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The trouble is you may not be entirely satisfied with any of the answers received here. Sabots are expensive, no doubt. However, I'm afraid that short of experimenting with a variety there is no shortcut towards validating what may perform the best in your firearm. You would indeed be lucky if the very first brand you try works out to be the most appropriate for your slug gun. :)
 
first I have found that you do not really gain much going to a three inch slug .I start with the cheaper ones like the Fusion ,,power point by federal .I have not had any luck with the hornadys sst,,I found them to fast of a slug for the rifled barrel ,best luck with a little slower slug ,,So buy three kinds of the cheaper slugs and see what you gun likes .Try them at 50 yards and see what you get for groups ,,Dutch
 
dutchhunter said:
first I have found that you do not really gain much going to a three inch slug .I start with the cheaper ones like the Fusion ,,power point by federal .I have not had any luck with the hornadys sst,,I found them to fast of a slug for the rifled barrel ,best luck with a little slower slug ,,So buy three kinds of the cheaper slugs and see what you gun likes .Try them at 50 yards and see what you get for groups ,,Dutch
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What Dutch said. You can also shoot Challengers, in a rifled barrel, and I find them to be very accurate in 12 and 20 ga.
 
Try sst's or accu tips. They are generally 53caliber bullets wrapped in a sabot. They have given me 8" groups to 200yrds. Shoot as fast and as flat as some rifles. 2 3/4" work as well or better than 3"

One thing I have noticed deer react different when getting hit by these types of sabots. I used to use foster type slugs from a smooth bore slug barrel in a win 1300. When I hit a deer at 50-75 yrds with the fosters they hammered them.... Dropped in their tracks DRT. With the SST they all died but managed to scramble 25-75yrds. But they were dead on their feet and left an easy blood trail to follow.
So just be aware the sabots shoot much better, faster, more accurate, shoot farther and have a bit less recoil....but you might loose that DRT effect you got with foster style slugs.

My brother had good luck shooting lightfields from his rifled barrel 1300.
 
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