RIFLED BARRELS
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Slower Lower Delaware 1st State
Posts: 1,776
RE: RIFLED BARRELS
Get a rifled barrel for that 20g 870.Install a decent scope and it will do as well or better than any 12g out to 150 yrds. If I'm tellin you a lie I'll buy you somethin nice
#6
RE: RIFLED BARRELS
thats what i was wondering. im still trying to get my first deer after hunting for 4 years and its getting depressing so i dont know what ill do.
#8
RE: RIFLED BARRELS
20 gauge will take a deer just fine. Rifled barrel should give you increases distance over a smoothbore. The accuracy should theroetically inprove also, but that's up to you the shooter more than anything else.
#9
RE: RIFLED BARRELS
ORIGINAL: AJ52
Get a rifled barrel for that 20g 870.Install a decent scope and it will do as well or better than any 12g out to 150 yrds.
Get a rifled barrel for that 20g 870.Install a decent scope and it will do as well or better than any 12g out to 150 yrds.
#10
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blissfield MI USA
Posts: 5,293
RE: RIFLED BARRELS
What kind of accuracy and what kind of distances are we talking about? In almost every case a rifled barrel will be more accurate than a smoothbore. However I want to make sure you don't have unrealistic goals in the first place.
How does your current gun shoot? What kind of groups are you getting and at what distances?
And if you do get a rifled barrel get a cantilever scope mount. This will let you mount the scope directly to the barrel instead of to the reciever. It is a more accurate way to mount the scope since the barrel in these guns are not fixed to the reciever. When you take the gun apart to clean it do you re-sight it in? Because you should. It is very possible for the impact point to shift when you remove the barrel and put it back on. Heck if the barrel is loose enough in the reciever it could shift from shot to shot. I highly doubt that is the case though.
As far as a 20 vrs a 12, shoot whatever you like. Obviously a 12 will have more power than a 20, but they will both kill deer just fine out to 100 yards with the proper ammo.
Keep in mind a rifled barrel will not make you a better hunter. It will just make the gun more accurate. Depending on how your gun shoots though it could double your effective range.
Paul
How does your current gun shoot? What kind of groups are you getting and at what distances?
And if you do get a rifled barrel get a cantilever scope mount. This will let you mount the scope directly to the barrel instead of to the reciever. It is a more accurate way to mount the scope since the barrel in these guns are not fixed to the reciever. When you take the gun apart to clean it do you re-sight it in? Because you should. It is very possible for the impact point to shift when you remove the barrel and put it back on. Heck if the barrel is loose enough in the reciever it could shift from shot to shot. I highly doubt that is the case though.
As far as a 20 vrs a 12, shoot whatever you like. Obviously a 12 will have more power than a 20, but they will both kill deer just fine out to 100 yards with the proper ammo.
Keep in mind a rifled barrel will not make you a better hunter. It will just make the gun more accurate. Depending on how your gun shoots though it could double your effective range.
Paul