RE: ammo question-NY Hunter needs help
Kabic is right...You need to sight in with the SAME ammo you plan to hunt with..This is ESPECIALLY true now that there are so many different loads available for slug guns nowadays...One slug may not group within a row of a**holes of another..
It used to be a lot simpler when the only choice in slugs was Foster slugs in Remington, Federal or Winchester or European loaded Brenekke slugs..Even THEN a gun might shoot one brand much better or worse than another...Now, with fosters, sabots, hybrids, etc. etc. it would be irresponsible to sight in with one slug and assume that another type or brand will group in the same place..
It's OK to shoot fosters through a rifled bore, and many rifled barrelsgroup them quite well...You just might have to clean the lead out your barrel every so often..Over the years, hundreds of thousands of deer have been killed graveyard dead with foster type slugs..
If you feel you don't want to spend the $$ on sabots, sight in with the fosters and if your gun groups them well, hunt with them..If accuracy begins to deteriorate, clean your barrel..