[SSN Vet]

I've been attempting to learn something about chokes and came accross adds for rifled chokes.

are these for slugs or sabots?

do they perform well?

thanks in advance.

[USMC - Retired]

Rifled chokes are for use with sabots only. A rifled slug with fight the rifling in a rifled choke and cause the slug to be unstable and unreliable. Rifled chokes work great with sabots (almost as good as a fully rifled barrel in my experience).

[SSN Vet]

rifled slug in a smooth barrel with a mod. or I.C. choke?

or

sabot in a smooth barrel with a rifled choke?

[USMC - Retired]

OK, well first off, I wouldn't shoot a rifled slug through anything tighter than IC with straight cyl being best. That being said, it's really a matter of economics. You should get much better performance from a sabot in a rifled choke than a rifled slug through a cyl choke, but both the sabots and the rifled choke are more expensive than the other option.

[Dave McCracken]

Don't tell my deer 870 it's got the wrong choke tube for non sabot slugs. It's gone close to 100% since about 1990 and brought in a messa venison.

IME, a rifled choke tube does well with most Forster and Brenekke slugs. Worth trying...

[skynyrd1911]

I use a rifled choke in my Winchester 1300. The sabots I use are the partition gold or platinums made by Winchester.

[frankt]

My Remington 870 performs extremely well with the rifled choke tube and Federal rifled slugs.

This is from the Remington Website:RIFLED REM™ CHOKE TUBES
• Adds rifling to smooth bore barrels equipped for Rem™ Chokes
• Adds rotational stability to Foster-type and sabot slugs as they exit the
muzzle
• Improves accuracy and shot placement
• Available in 12-gauge only