Slug recommendations..

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Looking for some recommendations for slugs for whitetails through a 870 smoothbore deer barrel.

2.75" - Brennekes, Challengers, etc. etc

What is everyone using????

What kind of range with accuracy are you getting with open sights??
 
Out to 75 yards though is there much difference between a 2.75" and a 3"??

I can't see shooting further than that with open sights.

And I plan on shooting a lot of rounds over the summer, so recoil is an issue.
 
Westicle said:
among the 2.75 and 3inch shells there really isn;t MUCH recoil difference....
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I dissagree... the recoil difference is quite dramatic between 2 3/4 and 3 inch Brennekes.
I would recommend the 2 3/4 inch 1 1/8 ounce Brenneke for whitetail with a smoothbore.
I don't reccomend the 3 inch... they have more energy at long range but they are not as accurate in most smoothbores @ 100 yards.
I have shot almost every smoothbore slug made.... most of them into deer... the brenekkes are the best... the challengers although good on paper, are piss poor at killing deer.
Any foster or attached wad slug lighter than 1 1/8 ounce should be used for target only and not for killing deer!

I suspect that the new Remington Buckhammer may work well in a smoothbore. I hope to do some testing with them and the new Federal Trueball shortly.:)
here is a good article on slugs http://www.nrapublications.org/TAH/Slugs.asp
 
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First of all, I bow to BIGREDD's expertise on this one. I do not know anybody that has shot even a small percentage of the slugs he has shot at game.

BUT

My own personal experience, with my own personal gun (Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 ga 2 3/4" chamber, smoothbore barrel) has consistently been that the Winchester 1 ounce slugs give me the best performance. That gun with that loading has killed about forty deer in my hands. With the scope that I now have on the gun, I can consistently put three rounds into three inches at 100 yards. With open iron sights, my groups were not as tight, but still minute of deer/minute of pie plate. I have killed deer at 100 yards and beyond with this round, but for sure those were at standing deer and sometimes they did not go down immediately.

The Challenger slugs will NEVER, EVER defile my chamber again, after their one disastrous season when I should have had my head read for forsaking a round that works.

Doug
 
I have killed deer at 100 yards and beyond with this round, but for sure those were at standing deer and sometimes they did not go down immediately.
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Yeah Doug is correct ... and I am guilty of shooting smoothbore slugs at deer well past 100 yards on occasion... the 1 1/8 ounce slug has enough energy to stretch that knockdown power.:)
 
Bigredd and Doug, i have great respect for both of you.

Gonna start with Brennekes, but then again, maybe I'll just go buy a new slug gun with a scope.

B.
 
Hmm, looking for a slug gun with a scope, are we? Watch for the May edition of Doug's Gun of the Month Club.......hopefully to be posted today....

;-)

Doug
 
Hey Doug, give me first shot will ya??? Send me a pm!!!!!!



Doug said:
Hmm, looking for a slug gun with a scope, are we? Watch for the May edition of Doug's Gun of the Month Club.......hopefully to be posted today....

;-)

Doug
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Doug said:
Watch for the May edition of Doug's Gun of the Month Club.......hopefully to be posted today....

;-)

Doug
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speed clicking to the EE forum to see if theres anything i can buy to get the wife mad at me for LOL
 
patience, me lads, patience.........I am not too fast off the mark, missed April entirely, have not listed anything since "March Madness." But there are some nice shootin' irons here that need to find new homes......

and back to the topic, one of them shoots 12 gauge slugs!!!! ;-)

Probably sabots, though..............

Doug
 
was just out shooting my little 14" remington smooth bore and at 100 yds all slugs from it where in a 6" group.....

at 50 yds they where around 4" and 25 yds they where all touching..... not spectacular performance but acceptable to me.....

shoulder hurts though, fired 15 rnds total..... 3" 1.25oz
 
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In my smooth bore Mossberg 500, (shortened barrel with scope), I get good groups with Challengers in 12 guage. However all the deer that I have actually harvested have been with 2/34 Lightfield sabots from a fully rifled 12 guage Remington 870.
 
Question to BIGREDD ....... :confused:

Will an Rem-choke bbl with rifled tube perform as well as a fully rifled bbl on an 870 cantilever setup??





thnx ........ sc
 
Doug said:
Doug standing in for BIGREDD............nope. Or so he told me about two years ago............

Doug
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That too bad, cuz I think one of those cantilever bbls (w/rem chokes) would be good for turkeys with a 1x3 scope and proper choke tube.

I wish we had turkeys here. :(




sc
 
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