Largest Animals You've Killed with Slugs!

[scotjute]

Setting up my shotgun to shoot slugs for a couple trips into areas that have bears as a safety precaution. Just wondering if anyone would care to shares their experiences using slugs on large animals. Thanks.

 

[Highland Lofts]

Just average size whitetails. Shot one that weighed just under 200 pounds dressed out.
One shot/One kill

 

[earlthegoat2]

Many many white tails with foster and sabots.

However, I have also shot a 300 lb pig with a foster. It was a normal Winchester super x 2 3/4 rifled slug at around 30 yds. Through and through the shoulder. It was a sow.

 

[Highland Lofts]

The bigest thing a friend shot with a slug was a 1978 ford pick up.
He was sitting in my cousins truck and decided to load his shotgun, but stock on the floor. When he cycled the action it when off and put a hole through the roof of the truck real close to the top right side of the windsheild.

 

[Bfh_auto]

The biggest thing I killed was my shoulder.

 

[WestKentucky]

When I started hunting I was using a single shot .410 with slugs. There was a really hot spot in the woods where herds of deer came through and the thought process was that I could shoot whatever deer was closest. Never saw a deer while I was holding the 410, but a pack of coyotes and coy dogs came through chasing a fox. The slug went through the top of the shoulder on one coyote and through the gut of the one behind him. I feel like I got both of them, but neither one dropped and Dad made it clear we we’re not following the blood trail of an injured and hungry coyote. I haven’t hunted with slugs since then, and later on in the season I moved up to the .256 winmag marlin 62 and I got a button buck. It had an odd row of spots on it like a fallow deer and since it was only a few miles from LBL with a large population of fallow deer, we always assumed that my first deer was a cross between whitetail and fallow.

 

[BreechFace]

The bigest thing a friend shot with a slug was a 1978 ford pick up.
He was sitting in my cousins truck and decided to load his shotgun, but stock on the floor. When he cycled the action it when off and put a hole through the roof of the truck real close to the top right side of the windsheild.

That must’ve been loud.

 

[edwardware]

I once (almost) winged a chipmunk. He may have died from fright, or from laughter. . . does that count?

 

[Highland Lofts]

That must’ve been loud.

I am sure thier ears were ringing.

 

[BreechFace]

I am sure thier ears were ringing.

And their underwear full...

 

[daniel craig]

Large whitetail with Hornady SST slugs.

 

[stillquietvoice]

I've shot several white tails with Foster type slugs. My first I hit on the move slug entered behind left shoulder and blew a chunk of shoulder and leg bone on the offside shoulder. A lot of heavy damage.

 

[Speedo66]

The bigest thing a friend shot with a slug was a 1978 ford pick up.
He was sitting in my cousins truck and decided to load his shotgun, but stock on the floor. When he cycled the action it when off and put a hole through the roof of the truck real close to the top right side of the windsheild.

"Hello Allstate, I have a problem...."

 

[EIB0879]

White tail.

 

[crestoncowboy]

"Hello Allstate

Farmers.. they seen everything


I have put down a cow with one a few years back. Cheap rifled slug. Head shot. Of course I've killed them with 10mm as well.

I would think a slug would be plenty for most anything. Thats a lot of lead and sectional density to boot.

 

[H&Hhunter]

25 or 30 wild hogs, fosters and Brenneke’s. A couple in the 300 lb ish size range. They are effective killers.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Now, try not to laugh...

Over forty years ago when I was young, dumb and full of (well, we won't go there) I decided to hunt ruffed grouse on a rare day off from work.

Up on the Echo Trail north of Ely, MN I pulled over to walk an old logging road.
Out of the truck, loaded my 870, started walking.
Well, this "road" was not maintained, so brush and Balsam were growing for several years.
Anyone who has hunted grouse know the sound they make when on alert...
This bird noise was just to my left...on the other side of some Balsam.
"He's right there!" I said to myself.
Took a hungry, desperate, and stupid ground-pound shot through the evergreens and BINGO, got him!

At home that evening I emptied my vest to find the hull I had picked up after my shot was a .................
Yup, a slug! Took the bird"s head off!
To this day I have no idea as to how that slug ended up in my 870, let alone my birdshot box and to have got that ruffed grouse! Lesson learned....

Oh, BTW the bird was HUGE!

 

[Antihero]

Stick with brenneke slugs for defence against bear too

 

[Ru4real]

Water wall tubes in a coal fired boiler, weight about 100 tons.

Cases and cases of 10 gauge birdshot are shot into a coal furnace during a shutdown to knock boiler slag off water wall tubes and superheater tube pendants. This is usually the first step in boiler cleaning. Every once in a while, a slug is mixed into the cases of birdshot, from the factory.

The hole is welded over or a section is cut out and replaced to repair the accidental hole caused by the slug.