Rifled Choke Tubes - Anyone try them?

[DRM]

I have a hankerin' to experiment with slugs out of my smoothbore 12g (22" with removable choke). I have shot TONS of shotshells but have never (to my recollection) shot a slug.

My question is....do rifled choke tubes really improve accuracy? I can't find much in the way of first-hand accounts.

Second question...any experience with Brenneke KOs vs Federal Trueball?

Thanks,

DRM

 

[Dave McCracken]

KOs have worked well for me,both on the range and in the woods. Best shooter piles them under 4" ETE at 100 yards with a rifled choke tube. Second is smoothbore all the way and does less than an inch bigger.

And Frankenstein is not used much for slugs, but it stacks them into 2.5" at 50 with its little 21" Turkey barrel with IC tube and a bead. Does about the same with a Hastings rifled tube.

There's no ineffective 12 gauge slugs. Try some out and buy lots of the best grouper.

 

[AcceptableUserName]

im a pretty big fan of remington sluggers. cheap, easy to find...thats for rifled


sabots, id go brenneke all the way

 

[Onmilo]

Rifled choke tubes work on the same principle as the English Paradox System where the muzzle portion of the gun barrel was rifles and the rest of the tube is smoothbored.

With the Paradox System regular shot charges could be fired with good results and a fitted lead "Bullet" could be fired in the same barrel effectively turning the shotgun into a dual use big bore rifle.

The rifles choke tube allows the user to effectively and accurately fire Sabot encased bullet loads,(Sabot Slugs"), in an otherwise smoothbored barrel.

It is no longer necessary to have the muzzle rifled when firing regular shot charges as one only needs to change choke tubes.

There is no real advantage to a rifled choke tube if you are planning to use the standard Foster type slugs in your smoothbore shotgun, these work fine in a standard smoothbore barrel.HTH