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What is a sabot slug used for?
Saboted slugs are shotgun projectiles smaller than the bore of the shotgun and supported by a plastic sabot. The sabot is traditionally designed to engage the rifling in a rifled shotgun barrel and impart a ballistic spin onto the projectile.
What is the difference between a rifled slug and a sabot slug?
A sabot slug is what you want to shoot out of a rifled barrel because the barrel will put the spin on the projectile. A rifled slug is what you want to shoot out a smooth bore barrel. Because the barrel is smooth, the projectile will not rotate appropriately unless it has rifling on it.
Can I shoot sabot slugs in a smooth barrel?
Definitely, a sabot slug should always be used in a rifled shotgun barrel. You can also use sabot slugs in a smoothbore barrel but most hunters see it as a waste of money to do so. You’ll get less than optimal performance.
Can you shoot sabot slugs through a rifled choke?
If you are shooting smoothbore with a fixed choke, avoiding sabot slugs is a good idea. If you’re using a fully rifled barrel, sabot slugs are a good choice. Foster slugs can be fired through a rifled barrel, and hunters who shoot rifled slugs through their rifled barrels claim to get good to excellent results.
What is the best choke for slugs?
Improved cylinder, cylinder choke, and rifled choke tubes are the best choke tubes for slugs. These choke tubes offer little constriction to provide stability when shooting.
How accurate are rifled slugs?
The effective range of rifled slugs is considerably less than that of saboted loads. But most shots taken at woodland deer are within 100 yards. Using a rifled or full-bore slug is no disadvantage at this relatively close range, but only if you can place the slug where you want it.
How much does a 12 gauge slug drop at 100 yards?
Consider a modern full-rifled 12-gauge slug gun firing a high-tech 260-grain sabot slug that leaves the muzzle at about 1,900 fps velocity. If zeroed at 50 yards (still a popular sight-in distance among slug hunters), that slug only drops 1.7 inches by the time it gets to 100 yards.
What is the most accurate shotgun slug?
Here are the best options we found — a “top 10” list of today’s best slug guns. 1: Savage 212 and 220. 2: Winchester SX3 Cantilever Buck. 3: Remington 870 SPS ShurShot Synthetic Super Slug. 4: Browning A-Bolt Shotgun. 5: Benelli SBE II Slug Gun. 6: Weatherby PA-08 08 Slug Gun Combo. 7: Mossberg 500 FLEX Slugster.
Can I shoot slugs through a Mossberg 500?
Can I shoot slugs or buckshot through a “smoothbore” field barrel with Accu-Choke™ tubes? (500/505/535/9200/88/930 models) Yes, and with sabots or rifled slugs, the more “open” the choke tube, the better the accuracy (“Improved Cylinder” recommended.).
What slugs can be used in a smooth barrel?
Full-bore slugs should be used in smooth shotgun barrels; sabots are designed to be used in special shotgun rifled barrels. You can use a sabot in a smooth barrel, but don’t expect very good performance.
What is the most powerful 12 gauge slug?
The Brenneke Magnum Crush is their most powerful cartridge and is only available in 12 gauge 3″ chambering. The projectile features the Brenneke sliding rear that slams into the front section on impact.
Will rifled slugs damage a rifled barrel?
Rifled slugs are designed to impart a spin, albeit less stable, through a smoothbore. Rifled barrels are designed to impart spin on a smooth sabot. The physics of the differing types of spin causes an erratic motion to be imparted upon the slug. Furthermore, the rifled slug could damage the rifled barrel.
Do you use a choke with slugs?
A cylinder choke is recommended for shooting rifled slugs in a smooth-bore barrel. Sabot slugs should only be shot through our fully-rifled slug barrels. It is not safe to shoot slugs through chokes tighter than those listed here.
How far can you accurately shoot a 12 gauge slug?
The “NRA Firearms Fact Book” says: “Shotgun slugs should not be used at ranges greater than about 75 yards.
How accurate are rifled choke tubes?
With the rifled choke tube 75 yards or a little longer on a good day. However with the rifled barrel it is possible to shoot 150 yards with a reasonable amount of accuracy.
Can you shoot slugs out of a Winchester SXP?
Yes, you can shoot rifled slugs thru a smooth bore barrel, but accuracy won’t be any better than shooting regular slugs. Best accuracy = rifled slugs thru a rifled barrel. If you remove the barrel on your gun and look down the bore, you can see the rifling swirls, if it’s a rifled barrel.
Are Brenneke slugs rifled?
Can Brenneke USA slugs be used in either a rifle barrel or smooth bore barrel? Both of these slugs are designed to be used only in full-rifled barrels and must not be fired from any type of choked barrel.
What is the best slug to use in a smooth bore shotgun?
The American Whitetail® 12 gauge Rifled Slug turns your smooth bore shotgun into a deer hunting machine! Designed for smooth bore barrels, Hornady® American Whitetail® Rifled Slugs feature a 1-ounce lead alloy slug that is loaded to 1,600 feet per second.
What is the drop of a 12 gauge slug?
A standard 12-gauge slug normally weighs an ounce, and comes out of the muzzle at around 1,650 fps. One catalog lists 2,361 ft. lbs. of energy at the muzzle, but that drops to only 926 ft.
What’s better slugs or buckshot?
The big advantage of using a slug is that it has a much longer effective range than buckshot. Additionally, shotgun slugs retain their energy better and typically penetrate much deeper than buckshot. A shotgun shooting a slug is also much more precise than a shotgun shooting buckshot.
How far is a slug lethal?
Rifled slug barrels are providing hunters the ability to consistently and accurately hit targets ethically out to 150 yards or more.
