Couple noob questions

[CZsp01]

Does a slug 'have' to be fired from a rifled barrel?

28" a good length for a beginner trap/skeet/upland bird hunting?

Like new "made in 1996'" Beretta AL391 Urika 2 Classic 28" for $600 a good price? No chokes, wrench, box, papers.

 

[Milkmaster]

Does a slug 'have' to be fired from a rifled barrel?

The quick answer is NO. They make slugs for smooth bore barrels and slugs for rifled barrels as well. Don't get confused and read the labels. There is such a thing as a rifled slug for a smooth bore!

28" a good length for a beginner trap/skeet/upland bird hunting?/QUOTE]

Yes, 28" is a good all around barrel for such uses.

Like new "made in 1996'" Beretta AL391 Urika 2 Classic 28" for $600 a good price? No chokes, wrench, box, papers.

Sounds OK, but I will let more of the Beretta gas gun officianados chime in here.

 

[oneounceload]

No

Yes

Where are the chokes?

 

[CZsp01]

Lost during a move

Thanks guys!

 

[PapaG]

Traditional "rifled slugs" are for smoothbores, sabot slugs are for rifled barrels. Generally. That said, I've shot sabots in smoothbores with rifled choke tubes as well as some old bri sabots in an Ithaca deerslayer and they worked well. I also shoot Brenneke slugs in a Hastings rifled barrel.

Some sabot slugs will break at the neck if fired through too tight a choke....they are designed for no choke, rifled barrels.

The old S&W BRI police slugs were this type.

Nuff info?