300Spartans
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Was wondering if anyone here uses slugs for black bears? I was looking at the shotgun tonight and was thinking of using it for next year's Ontario black bear hunt.
Sabots/Rifled Slugs for Black Bears?
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No reason not to. It sure has the power and penetration to do a good job.
I have tried the sabot rounds in several of my shotguns. All are smoothbores - no rifling. In each gun the sabot rounds did not group nearly as well as the old fashioned slug. But the old style slugs would stay inside a dinner plate at 50 yards.
Never shot a bear, but have used slugs on deer. Instant death.
I have tried the sabot rounds in several of my shotguns. All are smoothbores - no rifling. In each gun the sabot rounds did not group nearly as well as the old fashioned slug. But the old style slugs would stay inside a dinner plate at 50 yards.
Never shot a bear, but have used slugs on deer. Instant death.
I've read/heard of many hunters taking them with Foster slugs outta their smoothbores. Now, with a fully rifled barrel and good sabot slug you should have NO worries taking a bruin out to 100yds. Alot of guys are saying the Remington solid copper slug is pretty deadly and the Winchester partition the same, just have to try and see I guess.
Good Luck
Good Luck
Agreed, I'm saving my only two that I have left! I can't find 'em anywhere?
Man are they accurate and pack a good knock down punch!
So far I've been lobbing the Winchester 1oz 15/pack @1700fps ones from Crappy Tire, They got some good knock down too but lead the barrel up a bit
Foster slugs or commonly refered to as "rifled slugs" from either Win, Rem or Federal are all safe and basically designed for smoothbore shotguns.
Sabot slugs are meant for fully rifled or rifled choke tube barrels only, you can shoot them outta smoothbore but they cost too much IMO to waste in a smoothbore, eg. $14.99/5 sabot slugs, $4.99/5 rifled(Foster) slugs. You do the math. A saboted slug benifets more from a FR'd bbl.
The rifling on a rifled slug is just a term attached to these Foster slugs because they do look like rifling grooves, but they are in fact designed to conform to the various choked muzzles of shotguns, basically the soft lead is squeezed thru the choke providing a gas seal or obturation, ask any expert and I'm sure they'll agree. If any spin is induced it won't be much and the spin(if any) could be a result of barrel/choke irregularity. Maybe air passing over or thu the slug in flight, who know's? But to my understanding and knowledge the rifling grooves on the Foster slugs is to allow for conformity thru any choke.
Sabot slugs are meant for fully rifled or rifled choke tube barrels only, you can shoot them outta smoothbore but they cost too much IMO to waste in a smoothbore, eg. $14.99/5 sabot slugs, $4.99/5 rifled(Foster) slugs. You do the math. A saboted slug benifets more from a FR'd bbl.
The rifling on a rifled slug is just a term attached to these Foster slugs because they do look like rifling grooves, but they are in fact designed to conform to the various choked muzzles of shotguns, basically the soft lead is squeezed thru the choke providing a gas seal or obturation, ask any expert and I'm sure they'll agree. If any spin is induced it won't be much and the spin(if any) could be a result of barrel/choke irregularity. Maybe air passing over or thu the slug in flight, who know's? But to my understanding and knowledge the rifling grooves on the Foster slugs is to allow for conformity thru any choke.
Rifled slugs
I think the rifling on the slug is there for the purpose of fooling the shooter into thinking they spin, thus planting the seed of better accuracy in the shooters head!
The hollowed out, thin, lead cup at the rear acts like a tail, or the feathers on an arrow, and keeps the slug stable in flight.
I think the rifling on the slug is there for the purpose of fooling the shooter into thinking they spin, thus planting the seed of better accuracy in the shooters head!
The hollowed out, thin, lead cup at the rear acts like a tail, or the feathers on an arrow, and keeps the slug stable in flight.
