Slug Suggestions
08-22-2014, 02:05 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Warren County NJ USA
Posts: 3,894
does your 535 have a rifled barrel or smoothbore barrel? Shotguns are very iffy when it comes to ammo, for the 12ga stick with a 2-3/4" shell, you should try various ammo, if it's rifled, it seems the Lightfields work great out of most shotguns
08-23-2014, 03:32 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Warren County NJ USA
Posts: 3,894
the reason the Lightfields seem to shoot well in all shotguns is the fact the sabot expands allowing all the pressure to stay behind the sabot. Now these slugs hit hard, fly good, the downsize is, at 100 yds. they tend to drop fast....If you like how these fly, at 50 yds., you want to be about 2.5" high above center, this should put you out to about 125 yds
08-23-2014, 07:06 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Warren County NJ USA
Posts: 3,894
Originally Posted by westMDbowhunter
Is that the 20 ga bolt action?
Or was that a savage I'm thinking of?
Or was that a savage I'm thinking of?
browtine 7 has a Mossberg 535, a pump action 12ga
08-23-2014, 11:57 AM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,227
The most accurate slugs I have found for my HR are the 3 inch Winchester slugs that have a saboted .50 cal bullet. They group less than an inch at 50 yards and only about an inch and a half at 100. Don't know if they would group in a Mossberg but they sure do in my Ultra-Slug Hunter. And they will untrack a whitetail in a hurry!
Last edited by flags; 08-25-2014 at 03:21 PM.
08-24-2014, 11:40 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
I have the 500 in the Trophy slugster Crown Grade in both 20 and 12ga. The 20 LOVES Federal Barnes Expanders 3". The 12ga really likes the old ACTIV 1oz 2-3/4", punkin ball with chandelier attached wad. Both are rifled barrels and the proto type of the 535. Ported barrels.
