What are the current options on 12 gauge RIFLES?

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Besides the Remington 870 and 1187 Sportsman Deer, what other fully rifled slug guns are still offered, in any action type (semi, pump, turnbolt, anything)?

Which ones are typically the most accurate?

 

[ArmedBear]

Savage makes a bolt gun. Ithaca makes the Deerslayer (supposed to be quite accurate).

 

[2FNSLO]

H&R makes the Ultra Slug hunter which is pretty accurate.

 

[natman]

Mossberg has this in several variations, scope mount, open sights, camo, etc.

I expect a bolt action would have the best accuracy potential.

 

[Jubjub]

I have one of the Mossberg rifled barrels with the cantilever scope mount. At $2.50 or more a shot for sabot slugs, I haven't tested it extensively, but it seems to put Hornady SST rounds into pretty tight groups. I had one three shot group at 100 with all holes touching, but that was probably a fluke.

 

[Rembrandt]

Have half a dozen slug guns, the most accurate I've found was the Benelli Black Eaqle.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Thanks all - looking for max accuracy on a budget - probably a pump but maybe that Savage. The Mossy looks interesting - and it's got wood! Want a repeater (for mean piggies), so I should have said any action type except single shot.

 

[Art Eatman]

Arghhh! To begin with, they ain't rifles. If they were, the bore diameter means you'd be talking to BATFE.

Shotguns with rifled barrels for shooting slugs is what they are. Special sporting purpose, I guess, so BATFE doesn't get a severe case of wadded shorts.

Which is why this gets moved to shotguns...

 

[Jason_W]

If you have a lot of money, you could get a tar-hunt.

http://www.tarhunt.com/tarhunt/

I'm looking at an H&R myself.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Art, to begin with, they most certainly ARE rifles. They're not any more shotguns than any other rifle with ya know, RIFLING. The BATFE is not known for having correct definitions of firearm types. A shotgun, by definition, is a smoothbore. A rifle, by definition, has rifling. It matters not whether the cartridge has plastic & brass instead of all brass case. If it's a smoothbore with a long barrel & buttstock, it *must* be a shotgun or musket (depending upon whether it it designed for many projectiles or one). If it has rifling and a long barrel & buttstock, it *must* be a rifle. But in any event, it doesn't really matter which forum - either will work.

 

[Robert]

Well since it is the BATFE's definition that can and will cost one time, money and maybe even jail, Art is right on the money. Sure it has a rifled barrel but it is a shotgun as per the BATFE. And as much as we all hate it, their word is law.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Calling a rifle a rifle according to its true definition (instead of its bogus arbritrary BATFE nonsense definition) on an internet board can get one time? Wow, that's a new one on me. Their "word" on what constitutes a shotgun is no more legitimate than the Brady Bunch's definition of an assault weapon.

 

[Robert]

Way to put words in my mouth... thanks. I never said that saying it on here would. But The BATFE does consider a rifle over a certain bore diameter to be a DD, if I remember correctly, and if you have said rifle without the proper BATFE paper work, silly as it may be, then yes it can cost you time. And I imagine that an agency that can seize pretty much everything you own based on their definition of what weapon is what has at least a tenuous claim to legitimacy. Thankfully the Bardy Campaign does not enforce firearms laws. Unfortunately the BATFE does.

 

[Old Fuff]

The Hastings Barrel Co. - Which among other things made custom rifled barrels for popular shotguns, is being auctioned off shortly. See the attached link, and you will find guns, barrels, rifled chokes, and much more.

But do it now, not later.

http://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=27167