Slug Question

[model4006]

i had a guy tell me that since i have a rifled slug barrel i need to shoot sabot slugs out of it. he said if i dont the rifling will collect lead from the regular slugs and it will start to shoot all over the place. what gives? i thought as long as they were rifled slugs i could shoot them out of my rifled slug barrel. and what about the cheapo slugs ive been using, brenneke ko or whatever, i put up like a 3 inch group off hand just screwing around the other day at 50 yards. i dont think my accuracy is suffering, maybe i havent shot enough cheap slugs through it yet.

 

[Dave McCracken]

As a loose rule,sabots do best in rifled barrels and rifled slugs in smoothbores. There are exceptions, of course.

I've seen a couple rifled barrels lead up badly with as few as 10 slugs. Elbow grease restored them to pristine condition.

It's up to you....

 

[Zero_DgZ]

You could fire rifled slugs from your rifled barrel, but accuracy and performance would not be optimal. Use sabot slugs and call it a day.

 

[model4006]

wow, i will probably be very impressed if i use sabot slugs, i can shoot these cheap ones what i think is really really well. ill have to try that out.

 

[BigV]

As stated above, you can use rifled slugs, but why would you? At 50 yards using Sabots you should be able to hold 1 to 2 inch groups with no problems. The biggest benefit in using sabots is that you can have great accuracy out to100 - 150 yards. You can’t do that with slugs.