slug vs sabot

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just got home from the gun store. just bought a 20' smooth bore bbl for my 870 w rifle sights. i've got my tikka 270..but i hate banging it off trees when driving swamp and bush for deer. bbl came with a rifled and imp cyc chokes.
naturally went looking for sabot slugs for the rifled choke. got talked out of it , the guys there said to forget the rifled choke and use the imp cyc.....that they get better reviews of accuracy from the guys using rifled slugs through their smmoth bores?????

What do you guys think????
 
The Federal rifled slugs are very accurate out of my short 12 sxs, bullseyes on deer targets at 50 yards are easy.:D
Try different brands of slugs and shoot whatever is most accurate in yours.:wave:
 
On paper, the sabot wins every time.
But real world; people tend to cheap out on ammunition and resent sending a few $8+ boxes of five sabots downrange??! Box of five regular slugs costs somewhere in the $4 range, meaning more practice time and far greater odds of meat on the table.

Slug or Sabot are both great, but practice is better still. ;)
 
Yup just like everone said try all possibilities out. But me thinks you should have got a rifled barrel. However they are alot more expensive. More accuracy with the sabots for sure, but again ALOT of shotgun hunters for deer use only smooth barrels and have no problem filling the tags. Tough call, but I know I have better results from the sabots than the foster slugs. To dial in the fosters even more, try even adding a scope to it.
 
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