kshafer

can any of you give me some recomendations on foster type slugs?

ultra man

Any of the major brands are good, while you're smooth bore may group one brand better than another. Dont buy any 3" stuff, stick with 2 3/4" shells, cause they group better, and kick a bit less. My smoothies like Federal's rifled slugs. Pretty accurate out to 80 yds or so.

Paul L Mohr

The shorter shells may group better in your gun, but that doesn't mean they will in his. You never know until you try them. You might want to try some of the ones that keep the wad in the bullet as they fly. Like remington buckhammers, or some of the brenneke slugs. Sopposedly they are more stable in flight. Sort of like the fletchings on an arrow.

However my H&R with rifled barrel shoots plain jane winchester rifled slugs pretty darn well, where it shoots the gold magnum brenneke shells with wad still attached merely ok.

Winchester, brenneke/rotwieler, remington, and lightfields are all worth a try. Oh, I forgot federal, they have a new one called the trueball I think that might work well too.

If you talking about shooting these out of a rifled barrel keep in mind it will foul the barrel out pretty quick and you will need to clean it or the accuracy will fall off quickly.

Paul

uncle matt

Like Paul said, you'll never really know what your gun shoots well or best until you just about try them all.

Paul sez his H&R only shoots the 3" Brenneke Golds ok and mine shoots them well.

I have seen good accuracy from the BuckHammers from both smooth and rifled barrels. Actually I haven't seen really anyone get bad results from them yet. I've seen bad shooters, but seems their groups are OK, just not contered.

Another I will ALWAYS recommend trying and usually shoots well is the old standard Brenneke with the felt "wad" actually screwed to the back of the slug. Brenneke has alot of offerings, all high quality, but look before you buy. I'm talking about the only one with the felt wad, the rest are plastic.

Another good one from Brenneke is the 2-3/4" heavy field magnum.

But it would be foolish to not start out and see what happens with good old Remington sluggers or Winchesters. Because they can usually be had at $2/box or even $1.49.

Good luck and here's to a sore shoulder.

kshafer

thanks guys. i got a bunch at walmart and shot them and found that the federal truballs work the best. i now know what it shoots best and now have a really sore shoulder.