Rifled Chokes
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I have fired a good many slugs through several rifled choke tubes. Brenneke, Truball, Lee, Lyman Foster and sabot, SST, Lightfield, BRI and some run of the mill factory Fosters.
For me, bottom line, the foster slugs did no better, no worse than through a plain barrel. Lee key drives a small improvement, maybe an inch reduction at fifty yards. The expensive sabot slugs were marginally better than from a cylinder bore.
For my money, if I had a smoothie I'd stick to the Federal Truball, which also shoot well out of my fully rifled barrels. The Fosters, for me, have done the best out of a smoothbore with i.c. or mod. Choke.
Guns used, 1100, 870, 37, 695k, 210 212, 220. Rifled tubes from Rem, Hastings and Browning. I had a five inch Hastings tube I had high hopes for and it was only o.k.
Rifled barrels, Remington, Savage, Hastings.
Slug barrels, smooth, Rem, WW, Savage, Ithaca original Deerslayer which shot cheap fosters better than any other I have tried.
As always, these are my experiences. Your results may vary.
I learned long ago that for me fifteen to twenty slugs from the bench was a full day. Now that I've had back surgery and am well into my seventies, that is a little much.
200 birds at trap isnt a problem. Experiment but dont develop a flinch.
For me, bottom line, the foster slugs did no better, no worse than through a plain barrel. Lee key drives a small improvement, maybe an inch reduction at fifty yards. The expensive sabot slugs were marginally better than from a cylinder bore.
For my money, if I had a smoothie I'd stick to the Federal Truball, which also shoot well out of my fully rifled barrels. The Fosters, for me, have done the best out of a smoothbore with i.c. or mod. Choke.
Guns used, 1100, 870, 37, 695k, 210 212, 220. Rifled tubes from Rem, Hastings and Browning. I had a five inch Hastings tube I had high hopes for and it was only o.k.
Rifled barrels, Remington, Savage, Hastings.
Slug barrels, smooth, Rem, WW, Savage, Ithaca original Deerslayer which shot cheap fosters better than any other I have tried.
As always, these are my experiences. Your results may vary.
I learned long ago that for me fifteen to twenty slugs from the bench was a full day. Now that I've had back surgery and am well into my seventies, that is a little much.
200 birds at trap isnt a problem. Experiment but dont develop a flinch.
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dak0ta
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Thanks PapaG for your experience, that was quite helpful. Did you notice any difference in performance on deer-sized game with a Tru-Ball vs Brenneke style slug?
I'm thinking the Brenneke probably is more accurate and penetrates better than the Tru-Ball slugs?
I'm thinking the Brenneke probably is more accurate and penetrates better than the Tru-Ball slugs?
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No experience here with them. When they first came out I was real interested in them and wanted to try one as all my slug gun hunting at that time was with a High Standard 12 ga. smoothbore with a fixed modified choke that did well with Foster style Remington Sluggers. I thought perhaps I had an excuse to buy another shotgun that would accept screw-in chokes. Then I began hearing the stories from guys who were using rifled choke tubes and suddenly I began to lose interest in them. If they were as good as they sounded when first introduced wouldn't they be commonplace today? I've heard that by the time the slug reaches the end of the barrel it's already going so fast that the millisecond or so that it spends travelling through the rifled choke tube is not enough to put the proper spin on it.
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