Saluki,

My dedicated slug gun is an Ithaca Deerslayer II with a rifled barrel made in King's Ferry NY with a Leupold VX-1 that has the heavy reticle. I had tried the Hornady SSTs?, winchester BRI, and the lightfields, but none shoot like the remington copper solid. The only issue I have with the copper solid is that it blows right through the deer with little expansion. Kills them fine, but I don't get much of a blood trail. Ironically, I have an old Winchester model 120 pump with a smoothbore barrel that shoots almost as good. Growing up in a shotgun only area where the deer always seem to be about 100 yards away forced me to practice a lot in order to be comfortable with the distance. You can get good shotgun groups if you practice, most people just don't like getting beaten up by the gun. I should add that the Deerslayer II has a monte carlo type stockwhich really seems to reduce the felt recoil,and definitely helps in the accuracy department.

KJ