Remington 870 slugs?
 

hi guys i was wonderign if anyone shoots a remington 870 with a slug barrel? and if so what slugs shoot the best out of that gun. I am looking at an 870 thumbhole laminated wood with a slug barel and am thinking abotu puttin a scop on it... any thoughts

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my dad hunts with a 870 he uses remengton sabots and he has no problem keeping deer down up to 150 yards

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I use Federal Sabot Slugs. Mine isnt a reamington but they have worked great for me.

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My 870 21" barrel is not rifled. I use an open choke and Federal Tru-ball slugs. These give me the best accuracy. I tried several other brands but the federals shoot the best. The Remingtons shot the worst. I guess it just depands on the gun. If your barrel is rifled, you may want to try the saboted slugs. I would try several brands and see what shoots the best out of your gun. Also, 2 3/4" is plenty for deer. The 3" kick like a mule.

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im not worried about kick im 21 and shoot 3 1/2 buck shot all the time....:).I live in mass an we cant use rifles so im gonna put togeather a sweet slug gun

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My Rem 1100 likes Win Super X's and Federals. Hope yours does too!

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I use the plain ole Remington Sluggers in my rifled and smooth bore slug guns. At $2 a box you can't go wrong.

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I have an 870 with a 23" rifled barrel with cantelever scope mount. Scope is Nikon 2-7x 32mm Pro-Staff.I really like this set-up. It's very accurate with Hornady SST's.

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I've got the same setup with a different scope that is 2-4x.
The fully rifled barrel with a scope and sabot slugs is the only way to slug hunt deer in my opinion.

My gun likes the Winchester Supreme Partition Gold 385grain Sabots.
Just a couple inches at 100 yards, and one hole at 50 from the bench.
It shoots CoreLokt Ultra that well too, but I couldn't find them one year because they had sold out. Tried the Winchesters and kept with them since I still have ammo left.

Results on deer at 125 yards...
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1932396

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nice doe!!! ill ahve to update my pictures when istart knockn over

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i shoot 3" remington sabot slugs. work good for me so far. only downfall is they are pretty expensive.

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it depends greatly on what rifled barrel your 870 has, on mine is a hastings (1:34 twist) it likes the slower velocity(under 1700 fps) attached sabot slugs the best such as the 3" buckhammers, brenneke golds, and hastings slugs. the rem barrels(1:28 tiwst) seem to like the faster smaller sabots like the partition golds and the SST's with a red dot on my cantilever barrel, from a rest i can shoot a 3 shot clover leaf @ 50 yards, and 2-3" group @ 100 yards

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ReDoT, I didn't know they were different twist rates.
Good to know when pointing someone in the rifled barrel direction.

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I shoot a factory 870 fully rifled barrel with open/rifle sights and shoot 2 3/4" remington copper solid sabots the best. You're just abusing yourself by shooting 3".

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Thanks reddot i had no idea!!!!

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the new hornady sst slugs

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i shoot slugs but not with rifled barrel.

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I have had great luck shooting the light feild slugs very accurate, at 50yds I could almost shoot slug after slug on top of one another ,,,,