johnl

does anyone know if you can shoot a slug through a bird barrel with the old celecta choke ? i picked up and older 20 ga with this barrel and was wondering if it would be safe to do it I learned a hard lesson a few years ago with a screw in choke and slugs (put a 10 inch or so rip in the barrel ) now I'm alittle nervous about anything but slug barrels for slugs

Bloodnativ

I think you can but check with Mossberg to be sure. Their website doesn't address it specifically. Call customer service and ask them.

etothepii

Boy, she's hot!

...oh, wait. I thought you were talking about Carmen Electra!

Strut&Rut

johnl,

I have an older Mossberg...a bolt-action 395KB with C-lect choke. I picked it up for $20 at a garage sale, refinished/reblued the gun, and used it for years as my turkey gun.

Here is what I found out, both from experience and Mossberg.

First, the guns were designed to shoot anything from turkeys/geese to deer. Shooting slugs will not harm the gun although Mossberg recommended, if legal, to use buckshot in place of slugs.

If using slugs, with the choke dialed out to improved cylinder, I could not hit a 4x4 feet target at 40 yards! Buckshot, illegal here in CT, was little better...

So I crammed the choke back to extra-full and that's where its stayed for years.

You may have better luck, but my gut feeling tells me you probably will not

EDIT: Be sure if you do use slugs, to only use rifled slugs. Sabots can/will mushroom the end of the barrel (as stated by Mossberg CS)!

johnl

strut&rut thanks that's pretty much what I thought I'll try a couple of test shots but I'm not counting on much I'll have to look for a slug barrel down the road

johnl

just to let anyone know I emailed Mossberg and there reply was that slugs are not recomende fpr the clect a choke barrel

Strut&Rut

johnl,

Yep...not recommended, as I said, but the techies told me if wouldn't damage the gun. They probably also couldn't hit a 4ft. square target...