Who shoots em'? I just made one, and love the idea of it. What do you shoot for lead and what kind of performance do you get? I first got horny over the idea a few years back when on one of them hunting shows, the host dropped a huge Russian Boar like a sack of stones. That was the coolest thing I have ever seen. Tell me your stories.
I have a few slug guns, but my bread & butter would be my Remington 11-87 SPS with a rifled/cantilever barrel topped off with a Leupold 3-9X40 scope. I use 2-3/4" Lightfield slugs. Last year December 13, I took a black bear at 50yds. she ran 10yds after the shot, and she was down for good.
I have the Winchester model 1300 cantilever deer gun toped up with the Nikon gold 1.5-6 x 42mm and shot it for the first time last Sunday. Talk about kick. I was told they kick but didn"™t think it was that much. I"™m sure I won"™t feel it when shooting at deer. This will be the first year I use a shotgun with a rifled barrel for hunting and looking forward to it.
I have an H&R Ultra in 12ga , 3" groups at 100yds with lightfield slugs. Its actually a 10ga barrel bored out for 12ga shells. The thing weighs 11lbs and looks like a howitzer .....I love it ! Dont even use my rifle's that much anymore.
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Take the "Training Wheels" off your bow. Go traditional !
Slug-gun users should take a look at the 20-ga. Winchester Partition Gold load! It uses the same bullet as Winchester's 260-grain .454 Casull load, and is 300 FPS FASTER than the Casull load from a revolver! It kicks a lot less than a 12-ga. slug load, comes in a lighter gun, and has all the power needed for deer and black bear shooting!
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"Bitte, trinks du das Wasser nicht. Dahin haben die Kuhen gesheissen."
I picked up a Mossberg 500a Slugger in 03' because in North Carolina most Game Lands are Shotgun only. I topped it off with a Simmons 44 Mag 3x10 scope. Switched from Lightfields to the Winchester Partition Gold Slugs. The Slugs are 385GR NP's and are deadly at 2 inch groups at 100 yards. I suggest sighting in your cannon with a cheaper sabot slug type then check and see what the Partition Golds are doing. They run 12.99 a box(5 ea.) but they are worth it. If you aren't going to be shooting over 100 yards I would use a Slug gun, with the 385 grain and the 265 grain 20 ga you can't go wrong, and the best thing is that you will spend less time trailing after you throw that subsonic brick at em' ENJOY!
I have a bunch of expensive guns which I have used a couple of times...
I have one cheap gun which has netted me more venison than all of the others combined...
An H&R singleshot 20 gauge with an old steel weaver scope...
My best shot ever... The deer a small 6-pointer was approximately 140 yards from me and was just grazing for over an hour, I grunted and tried to get it to come closer to no avail. It was getting dark so against my best judgement I raised my gun and aimed at it's vitals (with the vertical just at it's back). I fired and it jumped, fell down and hopped back up. I thought I missed, it just stood there. I fired again in the same spot, it dropped and crawled to the edge of the woods where it collapsed.
My two shots were perfectly placed, less than 3 inches from each other. This was my first deer and by far my longest shot I have ever needed.
Slug Guns.
