No luck,but I keep Sluggin

[charger]

Ya I keep sluggin. A thousand pounds of lead later I still cant hit the right combo in my H&R ultra slug hunter. Well I can if I go to the outdoor store and take a bleeding on federals or remingtons, but how does a fella reload for these at a cost that keeps him out of a mortgage and comes out with a reliable 100 yd gun..Everybody around here brags about 1.5 inch groups at the 50,but hardly hitting a pie plate at 100 with home rolled stuff in the full rifled barrel. I struggle to get exited about that from a full rifled barrel.....I hear bluforce are good,but up here in canuckistan where the components to load bluforce are $40 for 25 they'd wanta be good....Ideas appreciated:banghead:

[danurve]

This might sound crazy - but just the other day a fellow shooter was having trouble with a 20ga. Rem auto - fully rifled barrel. He said after a few shots they were a good 6" spread. Turns out he was shooting regular rifled slugs and not sabots. So now he's off to clean the bore, and try again with the correct ammo type. Sound crazy? No he was just trying to save money. I helped his buddy sight in a new 22mag, you would be suprised at how many people don't know how to do that.

[charger]

Ya I'll say he's doing some cleaning.Those slugs are pure peanut butter.....

I called H&R's tech. Heck not only can they not tell me which loading data,they cant even tell me which store bought...So their right up there with the preverbial screen door on the submarine

[cordex]

Sound crazy?
Not really.

I use cheap, full-bore, rifled slugs exclusively in my rifled 12 gauge 870.

My not be up there with the absolute best of the best ammo for the platform, but it does just fine inside 100 yards.

Never had a problem with excessive leading of the rifled barrel either.

[jobu07]

Not really.

I use cheap, full-bore, rifled slugs exclusively in my rifled 12 gauge 870.

My not be up there with the absolute best of the best ammo for the platform, but it does just fine inside 100 yards.

Never had a problem with excessive leading of the rifled barrel either.

I have the same experience with an 11-87. Perfectly reasonable accuracy with rifled slugs. Minute of Deer. But I picked up a small stockpile of saboted slugs that I shoot out of it now.

[charger]

I notice in the midway review section guys claim that with the lyman giant pellet & trap loads they consistantly break 1.5 at the 100 ..Fine, what trap loads? They dont say what wads or powders, and wads alone vary by .015" per side in thickness..I would have to think it would make a difference. Given that these pellets come out .683 +or- with wheel weight,and a 12 gauge bore is .729,I guess we're looking for a wad with about a .023-.025" thick side..Anybody got a selection of trap wads they'd be willing to throw the micrometer on?

[Lon371]

I maybe mistaken, I think H&R used the 2 3/4 Lightfield for the go to round on this gun. I know of a couple guys here local that gave up pump guns because of the accuracy of the slugster. I am fixing to send my NEF 20 in to have a slugster barrel fit. Good luck.

[charger]

See,I cant get them up here in canuckistan. Has anyone heard about the LBC bluforce by ballistics products inc ?