I just went to wal-mart and they had mossberg rifled slug barrels for almost half off so I got one. They didn' t have any sabot slugs, so I got some 3" federal rifled slugs just to plink around with.
They did good at 30 yards or so, but man those things KICK!
And my question. What slugs do you use in your slug guns? Rifled slugs are good to plink with, but I want some sabot slugs for hunting.
you just really leaded up your barrel. you should only shoot sabots in rifled barrels. besides, why would you plink with a shoulder bruser like a slug gun. make sure you have a couple of good brushes to clean that barrel with.
You can shoot rifled slugs in a rifled barrel. What' s that worst that you have? A 12ga lead slug shooting in a 12ga steel open choke barrel. It does junk it up, but that don' t mean you can' t clean it. If rifled slugs were all I was ever going to shoot in it there may be a problem somewhere down the line.
Why would I plink with a slug gun? Why not? You have to get used to it sometime.
fyi, I work at a gun shop and have many guys think that it is ok to shoot rifled slugs in rifled barrels. I have had to clean a few guns that have had rifled slugs shot through them. bad,bad, stuff. it is really hard to get them clean, acuracy falls off too after shooting them.
The reason you arent supposted to shoot rifled slugs in a rifled barrle is becaus ethe have oppisite spin. The rifleing in your barrel is trying to force the slug in one direction and the rifleing on the slug is trying to turn it the other. they are working against each other instead of with each other
I got my gun clean. A little solvent and brush time, and alot of patches later I can' t see how anyone can consitantly use rifled slugs in one of those (I know of some people who do), but it didn' t do any damage or anything. (ok, I won' t shoot the things in my gun anymore[X(] But I was only going to do it that one time anyway).
Now, I was always told that the rifling on rifled slugs don' t really impart any appreciable spin to stabalize the slug, that the slug is stabalized much the way as a badmitton bird is stabalized in flight (with the weight being on the forward end of the slug). And that the rifling was more of just a way for the slug to be shot through a choked gun without damaging the barrel. The slug would just deform where it squeezed through the choke.
I would recommend trying a few differnt type to see what your particular gun likes,but I don' t know of to many guns that don' t shoot Lightfields well.Lightfields come in a variety of sizes (2 3/4,3,and 3 1/2) as well as light recoiling loads.I prefer the 3" commander sabots,1800 ft per second
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The grooves on the " rifled" slug act like a fan in the wind and get the lead spinning. A sabot, on the other hand, uses the rifling of the barrel to get the plastic spinning which, in turn, gets the sabot spinning. The plastic falls away eventually and you have about a .50 caliber regular bullet heading toward the deer.
I agree with everybody else -- experiment with various brands. Mine, unfortunately, likes the really expensive Winchester Supreme Gold Partition (Mossberg 695 Slug Gun).
what ammo for mossberg 500 slug barrel?
