Slug guns?
11-10-2009, 03:28 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
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11-10-2009, 04:22 PM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Greenfield, IN
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Just got done test firing my Browning BPS slug gun tonight.. Shooting the Hornady SST slugs... it shoots very well 2-3" group at 100yds... Killed 6 deer w/ it already. I picked it up off the used rack at Gander Mtn for $250... and it was unfired w/ the cantilever barrel. Slapped on a Nikon Prostaff 2-7 x 32 and shoots as good as I can.
I already had a BPS bird gun that I'd slapped on an aftermarket Ithaca cantilever/rifled barrel ($200)... It would jam on certain shells.. Gander's gunsmith had tried to repair it already so they allowed me to return it for $200 store credit... and added $50 to get the BPS slug gun... figuring that the Browning cantilever barrel was $300 by itself.. I figured it was a no brainer... and now I have a dedicated bird & slug gun... for less than the price of the Browning barrel.
I already had a BPS bird gun that I'd slapped on an aftermarket Ithaca cantilever/rifled barrel ($200)... It would jam on certain shells.. Gander's gunsmith had tried to repair it already so they allowed me to return it for $200 store credit... and added $50 to get the BPS slug gun... figuring that the Browning cantilever barrel was $300 by itself.. I figured it was a no brainer... and now I have a dedicated bird & slug gun... for less than the price of the Browning barrel.
11-10-2009, 04:37 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Darien, IL
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Just got done test firing my Browning BPS slug gun tonight.. Shooting the Hornady SST slugs... it shoots very well 2-3" group at 100yds... Killed 6 deer w/ it already. I picked it up off the used rack at Gander Mtn for $250... and it was unfired w/ the cantilever barrel. Slapped on a Nikon Prostaff 2-7 x 32 and shoots as good as I can.
I already had a BPS bird gun that I'd slapped on an aftermarket Ithaca cantilever/rifled barrel ($200)... It would jam on certain shells.. Gander's gunsmith had tried to repair it already so they allowed me to return it for $200 store credit... and added $50 to get the BPS slug gun... figuring that the Browning cantilever barrel was $300 by itself.. I figured it was a no brainer... and now I have a dedicated bird & slug gun... for less than the price of the Browning barrel.
I already had a BPS bird gun that I'd slapped on an aftermarket Ithaca cantilever/rifled barrel ($200)... It would jam on certain shells.. Gander's gunsmith had tried to repair it already so they allowed me to return it for $200 store credit... and added $50 to get the BPS slug gun... figuring that the Browning cantilever barrel was $300 by itself.. I figured it was a no brainer... and now I have a dedicated bird & slug gun... for less than the price of the Browning barrel.
Got cha a good deal there!
11-10-2009, 07:33 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: South New Jersey
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I have a Mossberg 935 with 24" cantilever barrel and it shoots great, but I just got a Remington 870 20 gauge with an 18" cantilever barrrel, shoot it just as good and it is 3 lbs. lighter, much shorter, easier to move around fast.
11-11-2009, 08:15 AM
#15
Giant Nontypical
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What ammo are you shooting in each?
11-11-2009, 01:00 PM
#16
Fork Horn
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I dont know what the regs are where you are, but they make these amazing things called muzzleloaders. Here in Allegheny county in PA we are allowed to used slug guns or muzzleloaders in our firearms season.
I will put my $300 muzzleloader up against any slug gun shot for shot...
I will put my $300 muzzleloader up against any slug gun shot for shot...
11-11-2009, 01:42 PM
#17
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: South New Jersey
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@ 100 yards on a rest I would say 5" groups are about right.
I use Remingtom buckhammers for general target shooting and sighting in, they group very well.
For hunting I just change loads, it was Remington copper solids, but just switched to the Remington accutips.
So far I like them, smaller sabot, but 1900fps.
11-12-2009, 08:32 PM
#18
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Salem, CT
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@ 50 yards on a rest I can shoot hole next to hole next to hole with both guns.
@ 100 yards on a rest I would say 5" groups are about right.
I use Remingtom buckhammers for general target shooting and sighting in, they group very well.
For hunting I just change loads, it was Remington copper solids, but just switched to the Remington accutips.
So far I like them, smaller sabot, but 1900fps.
@ 100 yards on a rest I would say 5" groups are about right.
I use Remingtom buckhammers for general target shooting and sighting in, they group very well.
For hunting I just change loads, it was Remington copper solids, but just switched to the Remington accutips.
So far I like them, smaller sabot, but 1900fps.
11-16-2009, 12:18 PM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Greenfield, IN
Posts: 953
I took a nice doe at just over 200yds w/ my 12ga BPS slug gun w/ Hornady SST slugs. This shot was from an elevated box blind.. located on a power line that cuts between the woods... The blind allowed me to use the cross bar as a shooting rest. the bullet nicked the heart... she went maybe 15-20yds. Even at that distance.. the bullet broke the far shoulder. Gun was sighted in 2.5" high at 100yds like the box suggests.. and I just put the crosshairs on the top of her back in line w/ the shoulder. Lucky Shot??? Yeah.. but it worked the way it was supposed to.
Very impressed w/ this bullet.. this makes the 9th deer I've taken w/ these slugs.
Very impressed w/ this bullet.. this makes the 9th deer I've taken w/ these slugs.