smooth bore slug barrel
12-23-2009, 07:45 PM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tug Hill NY
Posts: 420
Mnnden,
A properly sighted and practiced with quality slug gun is no guessing game. Yes a rifled firearm with equal sights will probably be capable of more accuracy past certain ranges, but all weapons must be understood for their limitations. Those of us who were raised in shotgun only regions know how to shoot and use them. I do extensive shooting with slugs. I have not found that with open sights I am able to get noticeably better groups with rifled barrels (from a rest) within 50 yards. Most deer in NY are shot well within that. Just as I look at any rifle with open sights as the limiting factor for making a clean shot...about 75 yards (the bead covers too much of the target area past that), so I also limit my shots with a slug gun. I certainly have greater accuracy potential further out than with handguns. Most of the newer muzzle loaders have horrible sights I wouldnt consider taking a shot past 50-75 yards. The shotguns also come into thier own when you are pushing hedge rows or brush fields kicking out deer at relatively close ranges, and we are not talking about buckshot.
A properly sighted and practiced with quality slug gun is no guessing game. Yes a rifled firearm with equal sights will probably be capable of more accuracy past certain ranges, but all weapons must be understood for their limitations. Those of us who were raised in shotgun only regions know how to shoot and use them. I do extensive shooting with slugs. I have not found that with open sights I am able to get noticeably better groups with rifled barrels (from a rest) within 50 yards. Most deer in NY are shot well within that. Just as I look at any rifle with open sights as the limiting factor for making a clean shot...about 75 yards (the bead covers too much of the target area past that), so I also limit my shots with a slug gun. I certainly have greater accuracy potential further out than with handguns. Most of the newer muzzle loaders have horrible sights I wouldnt consider taking a shot past 50-75 yards. The shotguns also come into thier own when you are pushing hedge rows or brush fields kicking out deer at relatively close ranges, and we are not talking about buckshot.
