slugs
#2
I am assuming you have the deer slayer rifled barrel. Mine loved the old lightfields. Grouped exceptionally well with them, wasn't too awful hard on the wallet, and hammered deer. Now that was the 12 gauge not the 20. My daughter uses a 20 gauge Rem 870 (rather, used till this year after discovering Muzzleloading ) and she used several different brands. Hers pretty much ate everything she fed it with reasonable accuracy and the best 2 seemed to be the Hornady SST load and the Rem Accutip.
#3
Nontypical Buck
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Location: VA.
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First of all, make sure your barrel is tight by seeing if you can physically flex it. When I first got a 500 w/rifled barrel, I went to the range w/Winchester BRI sabots. The group was more like a pattern because of barrel twist from shot torque. Tightening by hand wasn't good enough. I went home and covered the barrel screw w/a rag and tightened it w/vice grips leaving a small air gap between the barrel and magazine. If you do this, do not tighten the barrel completely, leaving no gap. Mossberg's manual says that's a no-no.
My groups at 100 yds. tightened immediately. If this isn't your problem, Winchester and Federal load the BRI style slug and that is the most accurate slug I've found so far. Each gun varies, but that slug is definitely worth trying. Reviews seem to back that up.
My groups at 100 yds. tightened immediately. If this isn't your problem, Winchester and Federal load the BRI style slug and that is the most accurate slug I've found so far. Each gun varies, but that slug is definitely worth trying. Reviews seem to back that up.
Last edited by Game Stalker; 11-28-2015 at 04:16 AM.