Ricol 1214 Deer load?

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Anyone using their Ricol for deer? I was thinking of using an open choke (IC/M) with 2 3/4" 1 oz slugs but I have never shot a deer with a shotgun (rifle guy) is the short barrel good enough for say 75 yard shots? I am thinking this may be the perfect bush gun for deer/grouse season...
 
I tried this out with mine about a year ago. This was a dozen shots with Score 1oz slugs at 50 yards. Point of aim was the center target, so it was hitting high-right at 50, but the grouping itself was fairly acceptable for such short barrels.

The sights are fixed and non-adjustable. Perfectly adequate for shot, but you'd really have to practice and get your Kentucky Windage down pat if you want to throw slugs and try for a humane hunt.

The barrels seemed to be indexed fairly well. Both were throwing the slugs to (generally) the same point of impact.

I wouldn't push it past 50 yards, even after a fair bit of practice memorizing the difference between POA and POI.

Cheers.

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Glock4ever said:
Thanks for the tip. What choke were you using? Do you think if you changed the choke it would shift the POI to be close to the centre?
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Can't remember exactly which chokes I was using, sorry, but no, it wouldn't make much of a difference in terms of windage, at least. Maybe a bit for elevation.

If you test and find that the windage is on, then you should be in pretty good shape. The sights on these (from the few I've seen other than mine), appear to have been applied by hand. Some are bang on, some... Notsomuch.

The inherent accuracy of the barrels isn't the issue. It comes down to the sighting system. I keep tempting myself to buy one of these rib-mount sights and dialing it in, but the truth is in detracts from the clean lines of the gun, and I have a shoulder scabbard for mine that wouldn't accommodate them.

If you're really interested in slug hunting with one, I would recommend adding some form of adjustable sight that you can dial in.

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grelmar said:
I tried this out with mine about a year ago. This was a dozen shots with Score 1oz slugs at 50 yards. Point of aim was the center target, so it was hitting high-right at 50, but the grouping itself was fairly acceptable for such short barrels.

The sights are fixed and non-adjustable. Perfectly adequate for shot, but you'd really have to practice and get your Kentucky Windage down pat if you want to throw slugs and try for a humane hunt.

The barrels seemed to be indexed fairly well. Both were throwing the slugs to (generally) the same point of impact.

I wouldn't push it past 50 yards, even after a fair bit of practice memorizing the difference between POA and POI.

Cheers.

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That grouping is stellar for a bead sighted shorty!
 
I will check mine out and hopefully report back in. I have about 10 rounds of 2 3/4 1 oz Win Slugs. I am hoping it is close to the POA. Maybe a site would be nice but I am not sure if I want to add anything to this shotgun. I like how simple it is and is relatively light for the capability it gives. If the slugs are too far off maybe I will need to go to buckshot...
 
Glock4ever said:
I will check mine out and hopefully report back in. I have about 10 rounds of 2 3/4 1 oz Win Slugs. I am hoping it is close to the POA. Maybe a site would be nice but I am not sure if I want to add anything to this shotgun. I like how simple it is and is relatively light for the capability it gives. If the slugs are too far off maybe I will need to go to buckshot...
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Consider a Burris Fastfire
 
freezer filler said:
I've never seen the gun in person but a good smith should be able mount a fastfire to just about anything...corwin has a sight that attaches to the rail though for sure.
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There are also vent rib to weaver adapters. The one I bought had... issues... out of the box, but after some tinkering and modding I got it to work (hold steady). The whole thing was centered around wanting to accuracy test a .22 Shortlane adapter. It seemed silly to put a Red Dot worth more than twice as much as the gun on this little single shot, but I had a Vortex Sparc that wasn't attached to anything else at the time.

Strangely, I finished up that testing almost a year ago. Just can't seem to get around to taking the Red Dot off that gun now.

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