16 ga slug gun

[planetmobius]

Love a good 16 gauge. Fits my frame, points wondrfully and I load then and have all the accessories for several. I have been casting and shooting 16 gauge slugs for years out of my regualar field guns. I started looking for a 16 gauge slug gun but have become convinced that there is no such creature. Is it possible to shorten a regular smooth bore barrel, equip it with rifle sights and get any degree of accuracy? What say you?

 

[Virginian]

It is possible, but I would definitely have choke tubes installed. Most all slugs I have ever seen perform much better with some degree of choke. The problem is you don't know what degree of choke will be best. Most do best with around Improved Cylinder choke, but THE most accurate smoothbore slug shooter I ever saw had a 28" Modified barrel.

 

[bearman49709]

Both Ithaca and Remington made 16ga slug guns. Hard to find but they are out there.

 

[drcook]

planetmobius,

Read your PMs. I sent you a link to one for sale. It is not mine. It is a mid to late 60's Ithaca Deerslayer. They are not that common. I have seen 2, maybe 3 for sale in the last 3 years. I own one of them. Just the barrels alone sell for significant money, there is one right now on eBay, a little over priced, but indicative of what the barrels bring.

As I mentioned in the PM, that gun is a smoothbore. Ithaca did make some rifled barreled 16ga guns, but they are very few and far between and typically carry a premium.

The smoothbore Deerslayers had tight barrels, mine measures at almost a Modified diameter. If you get one DO NOT run a sabot down them, they are too tight, only slugs that will squish down to fit. Back when these guns were made, rifled slugs were still a bit loose, not high performance like today's slugs and sabots are.

 

[Virginian]

Since when will a plastic sabot, designed to be safely fired through a full choke barrel, not squish? I'm not saying it would be ideal, I don't know, but I would think a tighter fit would be better.

 

[drcook]

I believe the Ithaca barrels are tight bored the entire distance I do not have a gauge long enough to measure a couple inches in.

How is a sabot, such as a BRI, where the 2 halves fit together tightly going to mash down to MOD ? Sabots are designed for rifled tubes, were never designed to fire through a full choked barrel. where did that idea come from ?

I do not think it would be a good idea to fire something through a barrel that tight that was designed to be fired through and engage rifling ?

I have gone and picked the 2 halves up after I killed a deer. I would not want to fire one through a tight barrel.

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