20 gauge slug distance question
12-13-2013, 06:01 AM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: maryland
Posts: 120
Practice practice practice know your gun everyone is different. What type of gun do u have. I have a h&r slug gun and I can put 2-3 inch groups at 150 yards.
Where as I have a rem 1100 smooth bore that's good only out to maybe 80 yards.
Its all the gun and type of slug/sabot used.
Where as I have a rem 1100 smooth bore that's good only out to maybe 80 yards.
Its all the gun and type of slug/sabot used.
12-13-2013, 06:11 AM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Michigan
Posts: 269
Best I could get it to do was 8 inches at 50 yards using the Remington rifled sluggers...
I bought an 870 with a slug barrel because of that.
It is my opinion, and others may have different experiences, that smooth bore guns with rifled slugs are not good anywhere past 50 yards for an "ethical kill shot"..
Anytime I track a deer more than 50 yards, I get a sinking guilty feeling because I didn't kill it quickly enough.
12-13-2013, 06:37 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,445
All 20 Ga slugs are not created equal. Are we talking rifle slugs or sabot slugs? Some of the high end sabot slugs can kill deer to 200 yds.
It is reasonably safe to say that the slug will kill deer out to the range your gun can shoot it acurately.
It is reasonably safe to say that the slug will kill deer out to the range your gun can shoot it acurately.
12-13-2013, 07:40 AM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Murby: "It is my opinion, and others may have different experiences, that smooth bore guns with rifled slugs are not good anywhere past 50 yards for an "ethical kill shot."
***Here is another Murby opinion that is incorrect and probably stated just because he has one that ain't jack chit past 50 yards! FYI pardner, some smooth bore guns with rifled slugs will shoot well and kill a deer "ethically" at 2 to 3 times that distance, including a setup that I have on an old Winchester 1200 pump with a short slug barrel that I bought new in 1967.
***Here is another Murby opinion that is incorrect and probably stated just because he has one that ain't jack chit past 50 yards! FYI pardner, some smooth bore guns with rifled slugs will shoot well and kill a deer "ethically" at 2 to 3 times that distance, including a setup that I have on an old Winchester 1200 pump with a short slug barrel that I bought new in 1967.
Last edited by Topgun 3006; 12-13-2013 at 07:44 AM.
12-13-2013, 07:52 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seymour IN
Posts: 597
I have the Savage 220 F in 20 an have killed them out to 220 yards an dropped them using 3 in Remington Accutip. I have it zeroed in at 200 yards. I bought it for long shots. I killed 4 deer with it this year at 136, 147, 177, an 80 yards none went farther than 30 yards great blood trail.
12-13-2013, 11:28 AM
#8
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
My Mossberg 500 12 ga. slug gun is good to maybe 125 yards.
I'd confine myself to shorter range with a 20 no matter how far I could reliably make hits with it. Say 75 - 80 yards.
But I'm not a slug hunter so maybe I'm selling the 20 short. (no pun)
I'd confine myself to shorter range with a 20 no matter how far I could reliably make hits with it. Say 75 - 80 yards.
But I'm not a slug hunter so maybe I'm selling the 20 short. (no pun)
