Bought a flat of Score competition slugs from Solely (great experience - next day delivery in SW Ontario) and took them to the range last weekend.
Firearm - Ithaca Deerslayer Model 37 with the smoothbore no-choke iron sight barrel, but drilled and tapped with a Tasco 4X scope.
Target - dollar store paper plate, I believe 8" diameter. I use them for target practice as I figure is the kill zone on deer.
First picture, 50 yards, 3 shots sitting on a chair (simulate ground blind). Second picture, 100 yards, 6 shots, sitting at table with firearm in one of the green plastic "shooting rest". I did not adjust the scope between the 50 yard and 100 yard target (I wanted to be 2" or so high at 50 yards).
Ended up shooting an entire box at 50 / 100 yards, some slow, some fast. My Ithaca definitely likes these slugs, as does my shoulder. 1300 ft/s muzzle corresponds to 1640 ft-lb. Google results claim a Foster slug has a G1 coefficient of about 0.109 so plugging this into one of those calculators (437 grain slug) yields 1111 ft/s and 1198 ft-lb at 50 yards, 995 ft/s and 961 ft-lb at 100 yards. If I buy in to the "1000 ft/lb for deer" claim, then guessing might be OK up to 75 yards with this slug.
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Firearm - Ithaca Deerslayer Model 37 with the smoothbore no-choke iron sight barrel, but drilled and tapped with a Tasco 4X scope.
Target - dollar store paper plate, I believe 8" diameter. I use them for target practice as I figure is the kill zone on deer.
First picture, 50 yards, 3 shots sitting on a chair (simulate ground blind). Second picture, 100 yards, 6 shots, sitting at table with firearm in one of the green plastic "shooting rest". I did not adjust the scope between the 50 yard and 100 yard target (I wanted to be 2" or so high at 50 yards).
Ended up shooting an entire box at 50 / 100 yards, some slow, some fast. My Ithaca definitely likes these slugs, as does my shoulder. 1300 ft/s muzzle corresponds to 1640 ft-lb. Google results claim a Foster slug has a G1 coefficient of about 0.109 so plugging this into one of those calculators (437 grain slug) yields 1111 ft/s and 1198 ft-lb at 50 yards, 995 ft/s and 961 ft-lb at 100 yards. If I buy in to the "1000 ft/lb for deer" claim, then guessing might be OK up to 75 yards with this slug.
Standard disclaimers apply....
