Rifled Slugs for Hunting

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Hey guys,

I'm planning to hunt mule and black-tail deer with my Mossberg 500 28'' barrel IC choke and rifled slugs. What advice can you guys recommend? What effective range should I be looking at? Brands, ammo, etc. Are the slugs accurate enough with a mid and front bead lined up?
 
Should be good with the beads out to 50-60m. Past that and you are taking your chances of wounding the deer. Practice with it first to sight it in and see how it does. My stevens 350 has rifle sights and it will group slugs inside a 2" circle at 50m so they are accurate enough, the weak link is the beads you are using for sights. Can you put a scope on your mossberg? If so i would do that if possible, as it would extend your range to 80-100m. But if you are hunting in the thick you will be fine, you'll just have to pass up some longer shots.

I only use federal slugs because they're cheap and very accurate... what more do you need.
 
I'll buy a couple of boxes of federal slugs and try them out. I should set up a target at 50 m? and then just shoot 3 shot groups? what kind of MoA should I expect?
 
If you want to throw a scope or Red Dot on that thing, the Weaver convert-a-mount isn't a bad option. Goes on really quick and easy.

I have 4 types of slugs waiting to try out in the same setup, but I haven't gotten out yet so I don't have any insight for you there.
 
out of my browning silver 28" beadsight i was consistantly drilling paper at 100yrds. but that is a no rush and not fast heart rate situation. hunting on the bead i would stay 60-70 yrds IMO
 
mosinmaster said:
I'll buy a couple of boxes of federal slugs and try them out. I should set up a target at 50 m? and then just shoot 3 shot groups? what kind of MoA should I expect?
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Lol... with beads you should not be looking for MOA period. Infact shooting for groups might be discouraging altogether, but realistically i'd expect about 4-5" groups. Shooting with the beads is much too instinctive for precision work. Draw a 6" bold circle on a piece of paper and shoot at it until most of your shots are going in the center. you'll want to build some confidence with your gun before putting a deer in your sights. Know where it is shooting and know you can put the shots where they need to go. And obviously go for clean broadside vital area kill shots. Seeing as the vital area on a deer is about 8-10" roughly, if you can group 'em that tight at 50-60m you'll be fine. Remember you are shooting a deer, not golf balls... so don't be overly concerned about the lack of accuracy.
 
regulate34 said:
out of my browning silver 28" beadsight i was consistantly drilling paper at 100yrds. but that is a no rush and not fast heart rate situation. hunting on the bead i would stay 60-70 yrds IMO
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You failed to state the size of the paper you were consistantly drilling.
 
Does the gun have a vent rib? If so, you can get any one of several nice fiber-optic sights that mount on the rib. Most accurate slugs I've found out of my smoothbores were the Challenger or brenneke. Don't know if the Brenneke are still available, but the Challengers are fairly easy to come by. As for range, I think I'd make 75 yds. my maximum.

Hope this helps.
 
Remington sluggers out of an IC choke seem to be very accurate. I made a 3 inch group @ 100y (3 shot) on a rest with my rifle sight deer barrel.

Remember you've got a 2 inch drop @ 50 and 8 inches @ 100. I wouldn't bother trying past 100, but for heavy brush hunting you'll probably never need more than 25-50 yards.
 
mosinmaster said:
Hey guys,

I'm planning to hunt mule and black-tail deer with my Mossberg 500 28'' barrel IC choke and rifled slugs. What advice can you guys recommend? What effective range should I be looking at? Brands, ammo, etc. Are the slugs accurate enough with a mid and front bead lined up?
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I have lobbed 1 oz slugs into an orange box sized rock at over 100yrds with an auto 5 I once owned.
I was using Federal slugs.

The gun would drop the rounds into/onto the target 5 times out of 5, all day long if I chose to.
Would I shoot a deer at that range?

Nope, would I shoot a zombie at that range with said gun?
Yes and it would preform perfectly.

Get with in 50 yrds and you will do fine... of course you will need some practice first.
Tight Groups,
Rob
 
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