any 20gauge slug shooters?
12-22-2010, 02:25 PM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 472
PS- the only time I've had a deer drop with a 12ga slug was a doe/button buck at 75yds I think, and a buck I spined at 20yds, I once put 5 rounds in the heart of a buck at like 40yds that just stood there...
These guys who say they love/prefer 12gauges make me laugh, to each their own though, but for deer, I see no reason for a 12 ga over a 20ga.
These guys who say they love/prefer 12gauges make me laugh, to each their own though, but for deer, I see no reason for a 12 ga over a 20ga.
I have 5 different slug guns with rifled barrels and scopes. I am not sure why but I do. My 2 favorites are my H&R's. I have a 12 gauge and a 20. The 12 is my go to gun. I can honestly say that me nor anybody else I know has seen the 20 gauge shoot better than the 12. It all depends on the shell you are shooting. Personal preference is another big factor. I have shot deer out to 246 yards with my 12 gauge. I am sure my 20 will do it to. I just havent had the oppurtunity to shoot a deer over 120 yards with it yet. I can say that my 20 gauge H&R with the thumbhole stock and a nikon 4x12x50 shoots a 1 inch group at 100 yards and is 13 inches low at 200. My 12 gauge with a 4x16x50 shoots hole for hole at 100 yards and is 11 inches low at 200. I personally prefer my 12 gauge since it has been the demise of more deer than my 20 gauge but only because I have had it longer.
I think I am going to need some taller boots!! it is getting pretty deeeeeeeep!!!!!!!!! Doc
12-22-2010, 03:54 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
PS- the only time I've had a deer drop with a 12ga slug was a doe/button buck at 75yds I think, and a buck I spined at 20yds, I once put 5 rounds in the heart of a buck at like 40yds that just stood there...
These guys who say they love/prefer 12gauges make me laugh, to each their own though, but for deer, I see no reason for a 12 ga over a 20ga.
These guys who say they love/prefer 12gauges make me laugh, to each their own though, but for deer, I see no reason for a 12 ga over a 20ga.
12-28-2010, 01:51 PM
#27
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: South New Jersey
Posts: 428
01-16-2011, 02:46 PM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
Just had a buddy take a big doe this morning at 87yds (Laser Ranged) with my Trophy Slugster with a Federal Barnes Expander and it was DRT!!!!!!! He took a pic but is too graphic for here to show. I will say that you can put an orange/fist into the exit hole and was dead before its leggs buckled!!! His 10 yr old was witness to it.
