Anyone else rocking a Remington 870 12ga with a fully rifled barrel?

[Micro]

I'm still old school. Smooth bore and Brenneke slugs. My 1979 vintage 870 police 2 3/4" with a 1999 smooth bore slug barrel. It will cloverleaf Foster slugs and Brennekes off hand at 50 yards and print about 2-3 inches off a bag at 100, or better with a Leupold FX-II 2.5X.

 

[Micro]

10 gauge slugs have merit, too.

Versus .30-06

 

[45/30-06OKIE]

I'm still old school. Smooth bore and Brenneke slugs. My 1979 vintage 870 police 2 3/4" with a 1999 smooth bore slug barrel. It will cloverleaf Foster slugs and Brennekes off hand at 50 yards and print about 2-3 inches off a bag at 100, or better with a Leupold FX-II 2.5X.

Nice! I actually just got a Carlsons 18.5in RemChoke barrel for my 870 so I can shoot all my buckshot stockpile and bird shot. I got a modified choke and I'll have to test some slugs in it to see how the accuracy differs over the rifled barrel with the red dot. I like your walnut stock a lot.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

Why not just use rifled forster slugs? Never done slugs so just askin

The "rifling" on foster slugs is mostly a marketing gimmick. It does make the slug more nose heavy, the rock in a sock effect.
It does not make the slug spin.

 

[Micro]

That rifling on foster slugs isn't there to make the slug spin. It's there to mush down as the slug travels down the barrel. When a rifled slug is fired, it obturates inside the barrel. The slug expands in the barrel and those fins mash down to improve the seal. The slug also significantly shortens before it exits the barrel, somewhere to the tune of 25 to 30%. The slug comes out looking much different than before it was fired. If you were able to catch it just as it exits the barrel, you'd see that the fins have mushed down to the point that they are touching.

The other thing is, they do spin. Slow motion video of foster slugs fired from smooth bore barrels prove they have a slow spin when they exit. And given than a smooth bore is smooth, the consensus is is that its the fins, all mushed down, is what is imparting that spin.