Rifled choke
- Thread starter rci
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Yes they shoot differently. You only have the length of the choke tube to impart spin as opposed to 20+ inches of rifling. The rifled tube is inferior to a fully rifled barrel for shooting sabots. Less spin results in less accuracy at longer range.
Ahsan Ahmed
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Different hunting scenarios will usually dictate choice of appropriate tools (read firearms). For example - if Whitetail Deer hunting will usually involve close range shooting out to 65 yards +/- then a smoothbore shotgun equipped with a rifled choke (or even with a plain choke such as IC) will serve very well - provided one has taken the time to optimize performance by matching a particular brand of slug to a particular shotgun (bbl).
Saboted slugs in rifled bbl'd shotguns will serve very well in terms of long(er) range as well as accuracy (read 100 yards +). However, due to the design those slugs will perform very poorly in smoothbores.
Saboted slugs in rifled bbl'd shotguns will serve very well in terms of long(er) range as well as accuracy (read 100 yards +). However, due to the design those slugs will perform very poorly in smoothbores.
I have a pre-93 Browning BPS Game gun -- it has a 5" rifled choke tube.
With Winchester BRI Sabot Slugs it can group 2 - 3 inches at 100 yards.
Their slow starting velocity is not a bug, its a feature -- the recoil is not bad!
(They retain the velocity better than foster style slugs because the are only .500 across.)
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Almost all new deer shotguns now have the fully rifled barrel and most ammo
from Winchester, Remington and Hornady (SST) is designed for fully rifled shotgun barrels.
IIRC, Winchester RackMasters as well.
