New deer gun
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: roulette,pa usa
Posts: 349
New deer gun
I have rifles,handguns and ML what I need to complete my deer hunting battery is a good slug gun.What would be your choice for a slug gun? pump or auto, 12 or 20 gauge and what slug would you use/
#2
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: chiefland Florida USA
Posts: 5,417
RE: New deer gun
I love decsions like that,don't you ?
I have never shoot slugs so I'm sorry I can't help with that.just thoughI would say
good luck on getting the new gun,and congrats.
I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest
remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.
I have never shoot slugs so I'm sorry I can't help with that.just thoughI would say
good luck on getting the new gun,and congrats.
I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest
remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.
#3
RE: New deer gun
A good pump action like an 870 Rem. or Ithaca M37 type with a fixed, rifled barrel and a low-power scope, using Winchester Partition Gold sabot slugs. Using this round, a 20 Ga. is as good as a 12Ga.
Larry
Larry
#7
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Clifton Park New York USA
Posts: 367
RE: New deer gun
F4YG has a good point. You probably have an idea of which action to use, and which gauge. Me, I use an older (pre-1978) Remington 1100 12 gauge, which I'm going to get a fully-rifled barrel for in the next couple of weeks. I seem to think that it would be a heluva brush gun, for where I hunt in NY's Northern Zone.
#8
RE: New deer gun
For a pump go with a 870 with a cantilever scope mount with a GOOD scope. You need a good scope that can take the pounding that the slug delievers. You could go high class and get a costum slug gun. There are a few companies that make special barrels for shooting slugs or just buy the whole gun costumized (barrel, action, trigger all upgraded).
I have a factory 870 with the cantilever scope barrel 20" fully rifled. shoots great. Use the Lightfield slugs. At 100yds I can touch all three shots. 50yds same hole.
Rem also has the new "super slug" barrel. 23" and larger diameter.
I have a factory 870 with the cantilever scope barrel 20" fully rifled. shoots great. Use the Lightfield slugs. At 100yds I can touch all three shots. 50yds same hole.
Rem also has the new "super slug" barrel. 23" and larger diameter.
#10
RE: New deer gun
Yes Singleshot, I like single shots also. I wonder if a Ruger No. 1 could be converted to 20 gauge to shoot slugs?? Probably not, but it would make a great deer gun so converted!! I have a TCR single shot rifle which used to have a 12 Ga. rifled barrel available, but they quit making barrels for it!!
Larry
Larry