Sabot Slugs and Rifled Chokes
- Thread starter Smis Five Creedmoor
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You will not know what your gun likes until you try various slugs.
Even so, I wanted to narrow it down to a few choices.
Smis Five Creedmoor, what kind of shotgun do you have? Does it have rifle sights or ghost rings?
If your shotgun has just a bead .... then you will not be able to fully take advantage of a rifled choke tube. Sighting and aiming with a bead will not be as accurate as a rifled choke will be with nearly any slug. So, in this case it would not matter much what ammo you use ...
And if your shotgun has rifle sights, ghost rings, ... or a red dot or scope .... just buy a selection of slugs that are available to you ... and give it a try.
There is no general rule of what works best with a rifled choke. It all depends on your barrel .... the rifled choke ....and the ammo.
I would also try some rifled slugs (Foster or Brenneke) through an Improved Cylinder choke or Modified choke. Depending on your gun .... you might not see any improvement with a rifled choke.
If your shotgun has just a bead .... then you will not be able to fully take advantage of a rifled choke tube. Sighting and aiming with a bead will not be as accurate as a rifled choke will be with nearly any slug. So, in this case it would not matter much what ammo you use ...
And if your shotgun has rifle sights, ghost rings, ... or a red dot or scope .... just buy a selection of slugs that are available to you ... and give it a try.
There is no general rule of what works best with a rifled choke. It all depends on your barrel .... the rifled choke ....and the ammo.
I would also try some rifled slugs (Foster or Brenneke) through an Improved Cylinder choke or Modified choke. Depending on your gun .... you might not see any improvement with a rifled choke.
Here is the sort of goup I am getting with an Improved Cylinder choke and Federal Truball slugs, and my 870P with ghost ring sights at 100 meters. Some people aren't even getting such groups with a rifled choke tube.
The shotgun in question is an old bolt-action that was fitted with a rifled choke, which was the only choke it came with. It's already got a scope on it, so aiming is a non-issue for me.
I didn't bother getting any additional chokes, and it sounds like I could feasibly get away without getting another choke.
sillymike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Yup.
- Rifled barrel are nice
- Rifled choke, couldn't notice any difference between it and a IC choke tube
the message I'm getting here is "use rifled slugs"
In my smoothbore deer barrel that is threaded for chokes a rifled choke improves accuracy with rifled slugs noticeably but once it gets fouled by 5 or so slugs it opens up. I tried sabot slugs but they weren’t as accurate as rifled in my gun.
sillymike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Best results I've ever had with a shotgun and slugs were with a Browning A-Bolt (fully rifled barrel) and some Lyman cast sabot slugs...
In a smooth bore, lead round balls / rifled /sabot, they all seem to group about the same
In a smooth bore, lead round balls / rifled /sabot, they all seem to group about the same
