The Price of Slugs!

[P3FE]

I am thinking about using slugs to hunt pigs in Florida during the small game season. As I priced slugs OMG, the prices! Base it on a box of 20 as you would rifle bullets and your paying $50-60 a box. How many of us would by a rifle that the bullets cost $50 a box? Not I. These ammo makers are bending us over and driving it home with these prices. Arethey trying to tell me the different wadding and a bullet should cost $3 a round? Just to sight the gun in could get damned expensive. I was thinking about going with a smooth-bore rifle sights barrel. Your thoughts?

[Horizontal Hunter]

There is nothing wrong with a smooth bore and foster slugs. I shoot them and they do a great job on deer out to 75 yards or so. If you are going to shoot long distances get a rifled barrel and shoot the sabot slugs. IMHO there are a lot of people shooting the sabots out of rifled barrels that don't need to as they are not shooting the long distances. In addition the rifled barrels are a lot heavier than the smooth bore barrels.

Bob

[nksmfamjp]

Certainly a smoothbore with foster's is a way to go. My rifled gun will throw foster's well to the 50 yards target and Hastings slugs out much further. It throws them to a similar point of aim at 50, so I put one Hastings in the barrel and 2 Win fosters in the mag. Not right, but I figure if I shoot 3 quicks shots at a moving deer, that it will be close. I would take a slower much better aimed shot out to ~100ish, so I want the more accurate Hastings slug there.

Another solution is to load your own Sound crazy, but there are a couple of ways to load your own and all are way cheaper than buying 5 for $15 a box. I want to say you could load for like $60/100ish. Litefield slugs are available at Midwayusa.com. They will give you data. In the end, it looks like ther can be huge savings available in reloading.

[liquidorange]

try the true ball federal slugs. like 3.50 a box and deadly accurate from a smooth bore.

[kevin1]

ORIGINAL: liquidorange

try the true ball federal slugs. like 3.50 a box and deadly accurate from a smooth bore.

I took my most recent deer with one of those out of a 20 gage with an improved cylinder choke, dropped that big doe like a hot potato.

[dphobby]

I tried them in my 1100 12 ga. with smooth barrel and was amazed. Four almost touching at 50 yds with open sights.

[mountainman08]

Winchester slugs are good too, they are a tighter fit than the Remington sluggers and just as cheap. I tried Brenneke classic magnum KO slugs and they just hurt my shoulder and wallet more. No way am I going to spend $3 a shot on shotgun shells.