I am thinking about using slugs to hunt pigs in Florida during the small game season. As I priced slugs OMG, the prices! Base it on a box of 20 as you would rifle bullets and your paying $50-60 a box. How many of us would by a rifle that the bullets cost $50 a box? Not I. These ammo makers are bending us over and driving it home with these prices. Arethey trying to tell me the different wadding and a bullet should cost $3 a round? Just to sight the gun in could get damned expensive. I was thinking about going with a smooth-bore rifle sights barrel. Your thoughts?

There is nothing wrong with a smooth bore and foster slugs. I shoot them and they do a great job on deer out to 75 yards or so. If you are going to shoot long distances get a rifled barrel and shoot the sabot slugs. IMHO there are a lot of people shooting the sabots out of rifled barrels that don't need to as they are not shooting the long distances. In addition the rifled barrels are a lot heavier than the smooth bore barrels.

Bob

Certainly a smoothbore with foster's is a way to go. My rifled gun will throw foster's well to the 50 yards target and Hastings slugs out much further. It throws them to a similar point of aim at 50, so I put one Hastings in the barrel and 2 Win fosters in the mag. Not right, but I figure if I shoot 3 quicks shots at a moving deer, that it will be close. I would take a slower much better aimed shot out to ~100ish, so I want the more accurate Hastings slug there.

Another solution is to load your own Sound crazy, but there are a couple of ways to load your own and all are way cheaper than buying 5 for $15 a box. I want to say you could load for like $60/100ish. Litefield slugs are available at Midwayusa.com. They will give you data. In the end, it looks like ther can be huge savings available in reloading.

try the true ball federal slugs. like 3.50 a box and deadly accurate from a smooth bore.

I took my most recent deer with one of those out of a 20 gage with an improved cylinder choke, dropped that big doe like a hot potato.

I tried them in my 1100 12 ga. with smooth barrel and was amazed. Four almost touching at 50 yds with open sights.

Winchester slugs are good too, they are a tighter fit than the Remington sluggers and just as cheap. I tried Brenneke classic magnum KO slugs and they just hurt my shoulder and wallet more. No way am I going to spend $3 a shot on shotgun shells.