Rifled Slugs in a rifled barrel. Its official.

[627PCFan]

don't do it.....

Well I had a friend visit from Massachusetts a few weeks ago, wanted to shoot a shotgun because...well you know. I'm a member of an indoor range so it's slugs only. I threw my old rifled barrel on the wife's nova and some truball slugs in the range bag and away we went. Now I never hunt with the slug gun, prefer my Triumph Ml all day every day, so the leading wasn't high on my priority list of it did. Well after three shots at an ipsc target at 25 yards and not hitting it at all, we hung out up. Flash forward tonight I actually might user the gun to hunt a shotgun only county in VA next week so I pull the gun and remember the range trip, take a look down and there is plenty of silver grit. It extended the first 12 inches of the barrel and then stopped clean. I spent 30 minutes tonight scrubbing with lead remover and copper choyboy. Man totally not worth it. I even sprayed gun oil into the barrel in between each shot to help. That's what I get for being cheap and saving my Remington coppers and BRI Sabots. Lesson learned.

 

[rule303]

My experience has been totally opposite yours. Not saying that I recommend it, but my rifled Mossberg 930 barrel shoots foster slugs just as well as sabots out to 75 yards, with little to no leading. A friends Savage 220 bolt gun is the same way.

 

[627PCFan]

We never figured out where those slugs actually went. 2 shots were at 25 yards, no paper impact, then to 15 yards, still never hit the paper. I just assumed they were spun apart from the twist.

 

[illinoisburt]

We never figured out where those slugs actually went. 2 shots were at 25 yards, no paper impact, then to 15 yards, still never hit the paper. I just assumed they were spun apart from the twist.

You missed, plain and simple. There is no way a slug "spun apart" from any rifled shotgun barrel. They just don't have enough twist. Spraying gun oil in the barrel before each shot is definitely not going to help accuracy. My guess would be you don't have rifle sights on the barrel and shot way high or way low.

 

[627PCFan]

15 yards with a rifle scope thats been zeroed with sabots isn't missing that close.......

 

[illinoisburt]

Receiver mounted riflescope, swapped barrels on a shotgun. Absolutely can be off a foot or more at 25 yards. If anything I would be suprised if it shot to same point of aim. Thats why pinned barrels are used on the proprietary slug guns and most good stand alone slug barrels have fixed rifle sights or cantelever mounts that keep the scope aligned with the barrel rather than the receiver. Been a slug hunter for closing in on 30 years here in Illinois. Seen plenty of misses from barrel swaps. Have never seen a documented case of a foster slug disentigrating mid-flight (though sabots from smoothbore sometimes do weird things as the sabot separates).

 

[7.62 Nato]

I never had a problem using rifled slugs in my Moss 695 (fully rifled barrel) for cheap practice.