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For deer. I know thats a broad question with many different interpretations but I need some advice. My friends father has a few nuisance permits for deer on his land and they asked if I wanted one. I only started hunting last year and havent been deer hunting although I have a 12 and a 20 gauge. So again what is a good slug for deer? also should I use the 12 or the 20? Thanks.
 
For thinned skinned animals, any normal foster-style slug would work wonders. Actually, they'd probably work a bit better than the hard-hitting brennekes or other hardcast slugs that people would sell you for bear protection.

Also, your shotguns have a smooth bore, right? Then Rifled slugs are what you would want. The sabots are meant for rifled barrels.
 
What would happen if you shot a sabot out of smoothbore? I can't imagine anything at all, but I have never tried it. It would probably be terribly innacurate though.
 
ltetmhs....yup. Sabots require rifling to give them a spin in order to stabilize the bullet in flight. Without the spin imparted by rifling, they tumble and become extremely inaccurate.
 
Shooting a sabot through a barrel with a choke is probably a bad idea because sabot loads don't compress like a rifled slug will, or so I've heard

HB
 
I shoot a 12 gauge 870 with a 18" smooth bore with rifle sights. I can cover a playing card at 25 yards and paperplate at 50 yards.

I shoot Brenneke KO 2 3/4 slugs.
 
There's no ineffective 12 gauge slugs for deer. For smoothbores, use "Rifled" slugs and/or Brenekkes. Sabots, pronounced Sa-Bohs, are for fully rifled barrels.

Buy a mess of 5 packs. Benchtest until one clear winners emerges. Buy lots of that, all from the same lot number.

HTH....
 
The moderator is right! Buy the most accurate out of your gun! I tried many many brands and most offered two different weights in 2.75" and 3" shells. All I had (have) is a plain, smooth, slug barrel with rifle sights. The 1 oz. Brenneke "Rottwiel" gave great groups at 50 yards, so that is all that I use, and I bought ten boxes of the same lot!

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If you have a rifled barrel, then the Remington Buckhammers in either 12 or 20 will easily do the job and then some. For a smoothbore, you need a more stable Foster-style slug.
 
for smoothbore, i use Challanger slugs and for rifled barrels, i use Hornady Sabot or Remington Corelock Sabot. All 3 very accurate in my experience.
 
That Brenneke is surely a decent slug.

That Brenneke is surely a decent slug. Fair accuracy, and hits hard.

Any slug works if you can get it on the target. But that Brenneke slug flys pretty well, and it hits and penetrates very good. Seems to have good components. I have an elderly Uncle that only hunted with his double 12-gauge. He was not into rifles in the least. He always scored, and that was his slug of choice. He kept buck in one barrell and a Brenneke slug in the other. He seldom used the Buck barrel. He shot many deer, and most all were one-shot hunts. He hit one in the ass with a Brenneke slug as it ran away from him. That slug entered just to the left of the deer's ****, and it came out the middle of the back taking a section of the spine with it. About a fifty yard shot. Not a shot I would have taken, but that deer went down immediately....a 12 pointer.

Law Enforcement uses them as well.
 
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