Rifled slugs in a rifled barrel

[procyon]

A friend of mine when he was in town picked me up a number of rifled Federal slugs in 20 ga. On the box they say " for smoothbore" and I was wondering if they could be used in a rifled slug barrel?
Would they work at all or would the two riflings cause inaccuracies or maybe a dangerous situation of some type?
The receipts have disappeared so they are not going back.
So, do I have 25 20 ga. slugs I can't use?
Any advice here would be helpful.
Blake

 

[blasted_saber]

Not sure on the saftey side of it, but ive always been told the accuracy would be terrible

 

[B]

Rifled slugs are stabilized the same way a shuttlecock is.I don't see why being spun would make a big difference?

 

[CZ_Brno]

A smoothbore has no groove diameter.

 

[LeePeterson]

You can use them but they will lead the groove in your barrel bad, its hard to clean.

 

[Tim@nutz]

You can use them but they will lead the groove in your barrel bad, its hard to clean.

I found accuracy wasn't that bad but as LeePeterson says wow what a lot of fouling. I fired 5 rounds, spent some time cleaning.
T

 

[dahotboy]

with a smooth bore, what type of choke do we use, cylinder? Also, how many yards will the slug be good up to? I mean accuracy.

 

[fat tony]

I shot some slugs out of my 870 a while ago, probably ~50 rounds. After a while the accuracy went out the door, interestingly there was a lot of leading in there I used a remchoke bbl with rifled sights and ic choke. - I wonder why they don't lube the darned things at the factory.

 

[Ahsan Ahmed]

with a smooth bore, what type of choke do we use, cylinder? Also, how many yards will the slug be good up to? I mean accuracy.

Open chokes i.e. Cyl or IC ....optimized accuracy @ 50 yds +/- would be the most practical .....foster slugs, or rifled slugs if a rifled choke is being used.

 

[Samson]

I have fired slugs through a smooth bore Winchester Moedl 12 Field shot gun and have noticed ther no good after about 75yrds vs my slug barrell with challangers is good for well over 200 yrds.Its all in the balance and rifled barrell PS Red Dot sites.Samson

 

[fat tony]

Samson, did you try the Challenger slugs out of a non-rifled barrel?

 

[Samson]

I shot some of those Sabot slugs from a smoothbore and purlpe shoulder and know idea where the rounds went.Ive used sabot slugs in my Mavrick 88 with the slug bar and it fuxxs all of the meat if you hit a bone.