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After three years I'm satisfied with my Illinois deer rifle. Finally tried the recommended brand of ammo and I'm getting one ragged hole at fifty and two inches or less at 100.
Savage 220 and Remington Accutips. Before someone tells me I'm in the wrong forum, it is a 110 action, a rifled barrel and has the accutrigger. I'll call it a rifle and Illinois can call it what it wants. Legal, accurate and deadly. Ready for my third deer with it, now beyond 75 yards if needed. The other five kinds of sabot bullets didn't shoot half this well. (Still kicks like a 300 mag)
 
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After three years I'm satisfied with my Illinois deer rifle. Finally tried the recommended brand of ammo and I'm getting one ragged hole at fifty and two inches or less at 100.
Savage 220 and Remington Accutips. Before someone tells me I'm in the wrong forum, it is a 110 action, a rifled barrel and has the accutrigger. I'll call it a rifle and Illinois can call it what it wants. Legal, accurate and deadly. Ready for my third deer with it, now beyond 75 yards if needed. The other five kinds of sabot bullets didn't shoot half this well. (Still kicks like a 300 mag)
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I have absolutely no reason to need one of those, but damnit I want one.
Congrats on getting it running the way you want, and GOOD LUCK!
 
Just because a long gun loads from the front and uses black powder (or its substitute), doesn’t mean it’s not a rifle. I look at them the same way you do.
 
LoonWulf said:
I have absolutely no reason to need one of those, but damnit I want one.
Congrats on getting it running the way you want, and GOOD LUCK!
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After a Deer Slayer (1966), an 870 "deer gun", an 1100 with a Hastings Paradox, a NEF slug gun and various others with rifled choke tubes, with Foster, Brenneke, my own homemade slugs, and some custom ones I figured I'd rather shoot than experiment. I say that now.......
 
I love those things. A friend has one that I call his "big bore rifle", or "20 ga. rifle", and it lives up to that. IMHO they have pretty much made 12 ga. slug guns just an exercise in "overkill", based on what I've seen in the field on whitetail deer out to an honest 100 yards or so. Of course there's so many of us traditional old timers who still cling to their fully rifled 12 ga. stuff; yours truly being one of them. But if I had to get a new slug gun it would be a Savage 220 without a second thought. Plus, it would also do what I need a slug gun to do with less recoil than my current 12 ga..... A big plus for old guys..
 
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I love those things. A friend has one that I call his "big bore rifle", or "20 ga. rifle", and it lives up to that. IMHO they have pretty much made 12 ga. slug guns just an exercise in "overkill", based on what I've seen in the field on whitetail deer out to an honest 100 yards or so. Of course there's so many of us traditional old timers who still cling to their fully rifled 12 ga. stuff; yours truly being one of them. But if I had to get a new slug gun it would be a Savage 220 without a second thought. Plus, it would also do what I need a slug gun to do with less recoil than my current 12 ga..
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I shot both the 220 as well as one of the first bolt action rifled shotguns, a Mossberg 695K. Both are bad off the bench.
 
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