Western MA Hunter

interesting... again, all the reason to buy several boxes of different brands... sabots aren't cheap, but in the long run well worth the trials...

gmil6184

When I shot a rifled 870 I used to use the Remington Copper Solids with very good results. This past year I sighted in my new 870, which does not have a rifled barrel, with the cheap old winchester rifled slugs and got very good accuracy out to 75 yards. Out to 100 yards the drop really came into play but still pretty decent groups. My suggestion would be to start cheap and then work your way up to the more expensive stuff.

uncle matt

One thing nobody mentioned when testing some different slugs is that you should really be spending much, much more time cleaning your barrel from one brand to another. If you don't you might have slugs shooting poorly that in a clean barrel might shoot darn respectably.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness! That is why here in my house we bath atleast once a month - sometimes twice a month!

obewizan

I found that Winchester eXtreme 2 3/4 shoot best in my Mossberg. They only drop about 2 inches at 100yrds if zero at 50....Plus they aren't that expensive.

wabbles

I picked up a rifled barrel for my mossberg last year. I tested several types of sabots and the winchester platinum tips shot the best. It put down a 6 pt. this fall at 47 yrds. The deer went down on the spot and never got back up. I bought several more boxes of the platinum tips and will be using them in the future.

redline002

Thanks for all the great advise. I do understand that I will be doing alot of testing this summer . I should have posted that I got a Browning silver slug gun for Christmas last year from my wife. It has a 1 in 28 twist rifled barrel. I have topped it off a Zeiss 3.5x10 scope. I will be testing the Winchester platinum tips, lightfields, and I probably two other brands I hope will shoot well. The other side to slug hunting is terminal performance. Accuracy is the importian but poking holes in deer is something I will avoid at any cost.

uncle matt

It is also important to know the twist rate of each particular rifled barrel. Faster slugs, say over 1,500-1,600fps tend to like faster rifling of 1 turn in 28 inches and most other slugs are designed for standard rifling of 1 turn in 34/36 inches. But I understand the Remington Accu-Tip, although 1,800+fps is specifically designed to best stabilze in standard 1-34/5 rifling.


These Accutips weight 385g (.88 oz.), are doing 1,850fps and deliver 2,926 ft. lbs. of energy at the muzzle. I can't figure what the energy would be at 100 yards.


These weigh in at 1-3/8 oz. ( ), are doing 1,500+fps muzzle and deliver 3,014 ft. lbs. of energy at the muzzle and 1,200+ ft. lbs. of energy at 100 yards.