Smooth bore slugs

[RMc]

Dixie slugs now makes a 820 grain hard cast heat treated DGS that can be fired in cylinder - no constriction smooth bore shotguns with reasonable accuracy to 40 yards or so. Rifled barrels will have a greater accuracy range however.

 

[W.E.G.]

Good enough for scattergunning...

 

[Ratdog68]

I've been using the Federal Maximum Super Slug in my Winchester... although, I'm not even sure they still make 'em. Haven't fired off the last of my stock in a very long time. I had very good accuracy results with them in my 18" smooth barrel Winchester 1200 Police. Flip-up rifle sights. Standing/off-hand... it'd put two of 'em into a phone book at 100yds, back to back. Good enough for moi.

I kept mine loaded with an alternated 00buck/slug/00buck/slug...

 

[JNewell]

Denis, logic, facts and history will get you nowhere on the internet.

This oughta be made a huge typeface sticky here.

Rifling on those slugs is there purely to allow the outer surfaces of the slug to swage down in passing through smoothbore chokes. It is not there to make the slug spin. It is neither restricted to smoothbores only nor prohibited from rifled barrels (two more common misconceptions).

Rifled bores were not built or developed exclusively for saboted bullets (usually called sabots), they were used with standard Foster type rifled slugs for many years before sabots were developed.

Smoothbores were also used with rifled slugs for many years & I'd consider it safe to say there were & are many, many, many more rifled slugs put through smoothbore barrels than rifled barrels.

Denis

 

[RMc]

You don't want to risk your life on soft lead slugs for defense against a Grizzly! The only slugs I would trust to break down a Grizzly are Hard Cast Heat Treated full bore slugs.

 

[Jason_W]

The all brass USS slugs offer impressive performance, but they're very expensive to import at this time.

 

[DPris]

JNew,
Quite true.
Denis