I bought my son a 12 ga. H&R Ultraslug for his 18th birthday this year - complete with a LimbSaver recoil pad and Nikon Slughunter 3x9 Scope with the BDC reticle. We took the gun to the range with a couple of boxes each of 4 different 3" 12 ga. sabot slugs. After sighting his gun in to hit bullseyes at 50 yds. we decided to see how it shot at 100 yds. This gun is absolutely amazing for a slug gun. He can consistently shoot a single jagged hole at 50 yds from a sandbagged benchrest. When we measured his first 3 shot group at 100 yds I was amazed. It was a 1.75" group. His second was a tight cloverleaf, and his third was just under 2". I had no idea that any slug gun could shoot like this out of the box! We discovered that his gun shot all the sabots we tried pretty well but it seemed to like the Winchester Partition Golds best. The Nikon Slughunter scope does exactly what it says it will do. When we used the aiming point for 100 yds. after sighting in at 50 yds. he was still right on the bullseye. Now it was almost a dead calm morning with the temps hovering around 45 degrees so we didn't have a chance to see what wind-drift would do to the slugs but I would have to guess that if we had been able to test the gun at 150 or 200 yds, we would have seen more of a wind effect but our local range only goes to 100 yds. It kind of makes me wonder what this gun could do if we had someone glass-bed the forearm, install a muzzle-break, and give it a trigger job! I am trying to locate a range where we can test his gun at 150 and even 200 yds.

I use a Mossberg 500 with a rifled barrel and Burris 4x scope. I can hold right around 6" at 100 yds with my scoped Mossberg but I will be trading it in on an outfit duplicate to the one I just bought my son. Let's face it . . . after the first shot is fired, the deer is either down or gone anyway!