Slugs? Choke?

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Can you shoot regular, non sabot, non rifles slugs out of an improved cyclinder choke? Sorry if this has been asked before; I couldnt get the search to work.

What choke works best for slugs?

Thanks.
 
What do you mean by non-sabot and non-rifled? Sabots are designed so the rifleing in the barrel spins them. Rifled slugs have the rifleing on the slugs which grabs a smooth barrel and spins them. A smooth slug in a smooth barrel wouldnt be very accurate at all. In fact I dont think I've ever seen a smooth slug that wasn't in a sabot. Rifled slugs which are meant for smooth borre barrels can be shot out of any choke from cylinder to mod. with no problems.

Tim
 
TReX300 said:
What do you mean by non-sabot and non-rifled? Sabots are designed so the rifleing in the barrel spins them. Rifled slugs have the rifleing on the slugs which grabs a smooth barrel and spins them. A smooth slug in a smooth barrel wouldnt be very accurate at all. In fact I dont think I've ever seen a smooth slug that wasn't in a sabot. Rifled slugs which are meant for smooth borre barrels can be shot out of any choke from cylinder to mod. with no problems.

Tim
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Thank you TReX300 for a very clarifying reply,
CCIC ;)
 
If you reload, Lyman makes a mould for casting slugs that is very good; you can load them in conventional four petal wads and use conventional star-crimp hulls.
Due to their diabolo shape (giant air gun pellet style) they self-stabilize in flight and are very accurate.
One of my friends has such a mould and he's tested them with a Lyman#2 mix, quenched them and they group AND penetrate on a par with Brennekes.
PP.
 
PP...I would style classify them a sabot type slug even though it only inside a wad. I've shot them before. If you friend wants to try something else thry shooting them through a smooth bore with a rifled choke tube. i've seen them be very,very accurate used that way.

Tim
 
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