Slugs and chokes

If you are shooting rifled slugs, then you'll be fine. They are designed to be fired through any choke up to and including full.
 
Do not use your shotgun with the choke removed.
Most shotguns that are designed for use with rifled slugs are cylinder or improved cylinder choked.
 
Fallenrock2 said:
I just bought an 870, it came with a "mod" choke on it, can I put slugs through it or should I take the screw choke part out first?
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Never shoot any shotgun with the threaded choke tube removed.

All factory slugs are safe to shoot through any factory installed choke tube. Factory slugs are manufactured so they can be shot through any size of choke.
 
Ok, I just remembered something from hunter ed about slugs cracking the barrel of a shotgun if they had a choke in them. Guess I must have remembered wrong.
 
Rifled slugs are all manufactured to be smaller than the constriction of a full choke. In fact, I read somewhere that using the full choke with the slug may help stabilize it a bit... probably somewhere in the depths of Chuck Hawk's website...
 
It's not that slugs are smaller than a 12 ga. bore, it's the rifled "ridges" on a slug that will compress to conform to the smaller diameter of the choke. Otherwise if the slug was actually smaller than the bore it would just bounce around on it's way out and the rifling wouldn't really do anything at all...
 
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