rifled slugs through modified choke

I just bought a remington OEM 20GA Imp Cyl choke and it says on the packaging ''Imp Cyl is recommended for shooting lead Foster-type slugs''
 
well I fired about 25 rifled Remington 1oz slugs through a 28" smooth with a mod choke and bead sights went well I was hitting a 6X8" gong at 100 meters and was about 4-5" groupings on paper.

I think I am going to get a 24" rifled barrel with a scope mount on it and see how that goes.

or do I het the mount that goes on to the receiver? this would save me about $100.00... is a deer barrel really worth it?
 
Do I plan on taking shots regularly past 60 yards? Yes; might want to consider the rifled barrel, No; might want to consider the smooth bore, that's my thought process.
 
Most shotguns shoot rifled slugs best through improved cylinder choke but quite a few do their best work with a modified choke. Skeet/open chokes are too open for most slugs, they like a bit of constriction for best accuracy, and full chokes are too tight and can damage some shotguns when used with slugs. Never fire a shotgun with no choke screwed in, it'll damage the threads in the muzzle.
 
i don't know where it comes from but so many think a factory made lead slug in a shotgun may damage a choke... It never has and never will and there has never been a warning on the ammunition box about choke damage... Where does this fallacy/myth come from?

...and full chokes are too tight and can damage some shotguns when used with slugs.

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I don't know where it comes from but so many think a factory made lead slug in a shotgun may damage a choke... it never has and never will and there has never been a warning on the ammunition box about choke damage... where does this fallacy/myth come from?

From the same guy that told me both he and his son got rid of their .308 rifles because the .308 cartridge is no good. Or maybe the same guy that shot a big buck at 1000 yards running.....:rolleyes:
 
From the same guy that told me both he and his son got rid of their .308 rifles because the .308 cartridge is no good. Or maybe the same guy that shot a big buck at 1000 yards running.....:rolleyes:

Maybe not in modern late model shotguns, but there were some full choke shotguns in the past that had their barrels damaged by slugs...maybe they were Damascus barrels?
 
shooting riffled slugs in old full choked barrels and new full choke barrels is fine. I do it all the time. its one of those old wife tales. The guy who did my sons hunters safety course told him he would banana peel the barrel if he did. yeah cause soft lead is harder then hard steel. To break him of his fear we fired a box through.surpise no banna peel. If a bear came at him I wouldnt want him to hesitate because of some folk lore lol.
 
I don't know where it comes from but so many think a factory made lead slug in a shotgun may damage a choke... it never has and never will and there has never been a warning on the ammunition box about choke damage... where does this fallacy/myth come from?

This is especially baffling when one considers that when Foster slugs were introduced, most people owned one shotgun they used for everything, that shotgun likely had a full choke (full/modified if a double), and specialized slug guns were virtually unknown until the 1950s. Even before that, factory round ball loads used an undersized ball that would pass through any choke.

I suppose that at some point somebody may have burst a choked Damascus barrel with a slug and blamed the failure on the choke, rather than barrel metallurgy that wasn't suitable for any smokeless powder load.
 
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