By: Dave Henderson of Winchester Corp

Consider that a conventional shotgun slug has a maximum range of less than 900 yards (823 m), and that's when it's fired from a barrel elevated 30 degrees. Your .30-06 will carry nearly five miles (8 km) from the same position. A 10 mph (16 km) crosswind will move a conventional shotgun slug 6 to 8 inches (15.2 to 20.3 cm) off target at 100 yards (91.44 m). A 130-grain bullet from a .270 fired under the same conditions will move about one-eighth of an inch (.3 cm).


"Even though our 20-gauge Partition Gold slug shoots roughly the same bullet as a .45-70 rifle, it carries a much, much shorter distance," said Winchester's Mike Jordan, referring to the .452-calibre controlled-expansion slug. "The shotgun slug is loaded and designed to lose stability at about 200 yards (182.9 m), while the .45-70 is stabilized much farther."
-on at 100 yards.

"Rifle bullets and shotgun slugs are very different animals," said Chub Eastman of Nosler Bullets. "We are doing some impressive things with slugs, but the ballistic coefficient is so low (Winchester Partition Gold is 0.1991inches/.505 cm) that it's like shooting pencil erasers when you compare them to rifle bullets."

....Because of that, all sighting-in of a slug gun should be done at 50 yards (45.7 m)...

If you think your shots will be longer, set your groups 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) high at 50 yards or 1 inch (2.54 cm) high with the new high-velocity sabots, and it will be dead-on at 100 yards.