Does shooting rifled slugs in a rifle shotgun barrel hurt it?

[Yimmy83]

Does shooting rifled slugs in a rifle shotgun barrel hurt it? I would love to shoot more but sabot slugs are expensive. Any one know the harm if any?

[johnl]

it will foul your barrel to the pont where it won't have rifiling unless you clean the heck out of it after every cleaning placing your cleaning rod into a drill works great to really clean the barrel other than that shoot all you want

[Paul L Mohr]

I will not hurt it, that is what they were originally designed for. Rifled barrel came first, then sabots became popular.

What it will do is make a huge mess. There will be a lot of lead clean out of your barrel. And your accuray will drop off after 4 or 5 shots in most cases because the rifling will become fouled with lead.

My H&R Ultra actually likes some rifled slugs, shoots them very well. However the bullets and the ballistics of rifled slugs are pretty inferior to the newer designed bullets. Not that they won't kill deer though.

Try some remington sluggers or Brenneke rounds, those might shoot pretty well out of your gun. Mine likes winchester rifled slugs, the 3 or 4 dollar a box ones, not the really cheap ones.

Shooting a lead slug out of a rifled shotgun is no different than shooting conicals out of a muzzle loader or lead bullets out of a revolver. Jacketed bullets and sabots are actually fairly new in the history of firearms.

Paul

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