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Old 12-09-2012, 07:43 AM
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Alrighty guys. I have about 45 20 gauge rifled slugs. I have a mossberg 500 in 20 gauge. It has a screw in choke. I lost my modified and only have a full choke in it now. So shooting them out of my smoothbore is not really an option.

I just want to have fun and get rid of them shooting milk jugs at like 15-20 yards. I have a rifled barrel for it that i used and hated with sabots, tried lots of ammo and just couldnt get decent groups past 50 yards. I'm in a centerfire state so i never use slugs anyway.

My question is can i shoot rifled slugs out of a rifled barrel? im not worried about leading up the rifling or extreme accuracy. I got the barrel for free with the gun for $200 so im not worried about it. I just want to know if a rifled barrel will handle rifled slugs with out blowing up on me or what not. I see other people do it and actually get better groups with rifled instead of sabots out of there rifled barrels.

So safe or not?
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Old 12-09-2012, 08:09 AM
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Should be no problem.
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Old 12-09-2012, 08:56 AM
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yes you can use it, accuracy will not be great. I have the same shotgun with the rifled/cantilever barrel using Remington AccuTip 3" with very good accuracy, others I know use Lightfields
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Yep, but as said, accuracy probably won't be too good.
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Old 12-09-2012, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Topgun 3006
Yep, but as said, accuracy probably won't be too good.
X3...Foster slugs are designed to be shot out of modified
or IC/cylinder chokes...
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Old 12-10-2012, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SingleShotNeeded
X3...Foster slugs are designed to be shot out of modified
or IC/cylinder chokes...
as i stated i lost my modified choke for my smooth bore, i only have a full. Im just trying to get rid of the slugs i have. there doing no good sitting in my gun case.
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