Buckshot in a rifled slug barrel?

[1KPerDay]

This is undoubtedly a stupid and/or many-times-asked question, but that never stopped me before.

I assume shooting 00 buck through a rifled slug barrel would be fine, and I'd also assume the spin may open the pattern up a bit. True or false?

 

[dfariswheel]

Rifled shotgun barrels are for shooting sabot type slugs ONLY.
NO birdshot, NO buckshot, and NO standard slugs.

Shooting shot or standard slugs will lead the bore BADLY, and it's very difficult to clean it all out.

The rifling will "swirl" the shot as it passes down the barrel, and when it exits, it opens up into a donut-shaped spread with a large hole in the middle.

Hits on target are purely a matter of blind chance since there is no real pattern.

 

[RonB]

X2....he nailed it.

 

[1KPerDay]

Thank ye kindly. BTW, don't some buckshot loads come in a full-length shot cup? Wouldn't that prevent leading? Or do they even make loads like that?

 

[foghornl]

The full-length shot cup would reduce/prevent leading, but you would most likely get a lot of spin, and a very poor pattern.

Now, if you have the 'sabot slugs', the rifled barrel or rifled choke tube is the 'bees knees' for those.

 

[LuckyATB]

How about the reverse...shooting rifled slugs thru a plain barrel?

 

[mattw]

you can shoot anything through a smoothbore barrel, accuracy with sabot slugs will suck because the sabot will likely not separate from the projectile

 

[foghornl]

shooting rifled slugs thru a plain barrel?

The plain "rifled" slug, AKA Forster {Foster?} is made to shoot through plain barrels