shooting rifled slugs out of an o/a

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Shotgun season is about to start and I have no other option but to use my baikal o/a mod/full chokes. I know shooting slugs out of the modified barrel is fine. I would like to use both barrels, can I remove the full choke out of the barrel and fire slugs through that barrel unchokes? If so will I damage it in any way?
 
I fired hundreds through a full choke before I knew you couldn't (shouldn't)
Always found it accurate too. Oh well, maybe I was just imagining the 2L bottles exploding at 100 yards.
 
I bought Remington rifled slugs the green/yellow box, they work amazingly out of the modified barrel, I feel confident I can get it done with 1 shot, plus I really like my shotgun and would hate to risk doing damage to it.

Thank you for all the advice guys
 
I've fired lots of slugs through many shotgun/ barrels. They won't damage your barrel, but slugs give a huge range in accuracy from one make to another as well as a big difference from one choke to another. Try as many brands/ sizes you can, they will all work differently. Go with the one that gives you best groups. If you can consistently hit 4 liter jugs of water at 75 yards, then you're doing good enough to go after deer.
 
This topic has always slightly confused me because I read contradictory things on it.

So is the whole "no slugs in a full choke" thing wrong?

If I want to try shooting some slugs using my trap gun, and I want to err on the side of safety (for me and for my gun), which slug is best? Rifled or nonrifled? And is there a particular subtype?
 
without a rifled barrel or a rifled choke tube.you will be wanting to shoot rifled slugs if you have rifled choke or barrel go with non-rifled slugs.in a trap/skeet gun the rifled slug is best.most of the slugs i shot thru a full choke was in an older modle 870 wingmaster with a fixed full choke.have not shot many thru the screw-in chokes.
 
I bought an old SxS off of tradeex and a rifled slug is OKAY to shoot out of a full choke. Theres nothing to worry about, ive honestly never ever heard of someone blowing up a barrel from shooting a rifled slug out of a full choke. The leads soft and squishes, the rifling on the slugs makes that even easier, remember the lead is way softer than steel.
 
When Foster slugs were first developed, there were no specialized slug guns; they had to be safe for use in any standard shotgun. Most hunters had only one shotgun and it was typically full choked. Before that, the standard single projectile loading was a round ball sized to pass freely through a full choke.

The only chokes you have to worry about with slugs are extra full chokes. Regular full chokes are fine.

The rifling on slugs is primarily designed to collapse and allow it to pass through a choke. That it imparts a spin on the slug is a bonus; slugs are stabilized by their nose-heaviness, just like a shuttlecock.
 
deadeyes40 said:
if it was not designed to impart spin/stabilize the slug the rifling would just be straight along the side instead of a spiral.
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Contrary to popular belief, these fins actually impart no spin onto the slug as it travels through the air. The actual purpose of the fins is to minimize the friction on both the barrel and projectile and allow the slug to safely be swaged down when fired through a choke, although accuracy will suffer and choke wear will be progressively accelerated when fired through any choke gauge tighter than open.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_slug see the Foster Slug section.
 
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