What slugs with Mossberg ?
01-18-2002, 06:23 AM
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RE: What slugs with Mossberg ?
Quilly,
I have a cylinder bore and can't change it without getting a new barrel.
50 yards would be good enough for me. I'm used to bowhunting anyway, so I'm used to having limited range. Since I hunt the thick stuff, it won't be a big deal.
I didn't know you could shoot slugs through a full choke.
Thanks everybody. If anybody else has input, let me know. I'm particularly interested to hear if you have tried different types yourself and found one slug to be better in your gun.
Keep 'em all in the Bull.
Edited by - bulzeye on 01/18/2002 07:25:04
I have a cylinder bore and can't change it without getting a new barrel.
50 yards would be good enough for me. I'm used to bowhunting anyway, so I'm used to having limited range. Since I hunt the thick stuff, it won't be a big deal.
I didn't know you could shoot slugs through a full choke.
Thanks everybody. If anybody else has input, let me know. I'm particularly interested to hear if you have tried different types yourself and found one slug to be better in your gun.
Keep 'em all in the Bull.
Edited by - bulzeye on 01/18/2002 07:25:04
01-18-2002, 09:07 AM
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RE: What slugs with Mossberg ?
Ditto on the Brenneke slugs.
We've used them, short range, on hogs out of my smooth bore Mossberg 500 20ga and none of them boogers have complained yet! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
For grins, I've shot them out to 50yds and accuracy is good, at least to that point.
We've used them, short range, on hogs out of my smooth bore Mossberg 500 20ga and none of them boogers have complained yet! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
For grins, I've shot them out to 50yds and accuracy is good, at least to that point.
01-18-2002, 10:58 AM
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RE: What slugs with Mossberg ?
I've hunted deer in Ohio with a 500 a few times. Mine likes the cheap Win 2 3/4" slugs. I feel very confident to 75 yards and even a little longer in the proper situation.
01-18-2002, 08:08 PM
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RE: What slugs with Mossberg ?
Someone please tell me if I am wrong here, but aren't sabot slugs practically worthless on a smoothbore gun? Seems to me that the sabot's sole purpose in life is to catch the bore's rifling and impart that spin to the slug itself.
Therefore wouldn't no rifling = no spin on a sabot slug? In essence, launching a 3/4oz lead knuckleball downrange?
Therefore wouldn't no rifling = no spin on a sabot slug? In essence, launching a 3/4oz lead knuckleball downrange?
01-18-2002, 08:26 PM
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RE: What slugs with Mossberg ?
Theoretically Whiz, that is correct. A sabot makes no sense in a smoothebore. It is virtually pointless. I have heard guys say that they shoot well out of some smoothebores...but don't know that firsthand.
01-18-2002, 11:20 PM
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RE: What slugs with Mossberg ?
Quilly, I have never shot slugs out of a choke as tight as a full choke. What I said was only what I have heard. So, being comepletely serious, if you have done it, then I will believe you.
01-19-2002, 06:40 AM
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RE: What slugs with Mossberg ?
Bulzeye,
I have found that my best shooting smoothbore barrel is my "improved cylinder". I am not a shotgun expert at al, and don't know if a "cylinder bore" is the same as an "improved cylinder" but for smoothbores my "improved cylinder" does best. As for which slug will fly best from your smoothbore......test, test, test.
I have found that my best shooting smoothbore barrel is my "improved cylinder". I am not a shotgun expert at al, and don't know if a "cylinder bore" is the same as an "improved cylinder" but for smoothbores my "improved cylinder" does best. As for which slug will fly best from your smoothbore......test, test, test.