I bought a rifled barrel gun last year (Browning 20 ga. BPS) but I might get rid of it because the price of ammo is just crazy . Some of this stuff is $5.00 a round
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Anyone switch back to smooth bore
Started by ants, Jul 07 2012 06:16 PM
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:16 PM
With the price of sabots going through the roof I was just wondering if anyone went back to ,or is thinking about going back to, smooth bore with the standard slugs.
I bought a rifled barrel gun last year (Browning 20 ga. BPS) but I might get rid of it because the price of ammo is just crazy . Some of this stuff is $5.00 a round
I bought a rifled barrel gun last year (Browning 20 ga. BPS) but I might get rid of it because the price of ammo is just crazy . Some of this stuff is $5.00 a round
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:20 PM
I put Winchester and Federal Foster rifled slugs through my rifled barrel . I have done this for years .
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:22 PM
Never thought of try'n that
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:51 PM
Ants, what sabots are $5 a round?
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 07:00 PM
I love my smoothbore Remington 870 20 ga. and my smoothbore Ithaca 37 12 ga. My favorite slugs are the old Active slugs...or the newer Fiocchi and Truball slugs. For my type of hunting, they work just fine!
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 07:24 PM
Sabots slugs are big $$ ,one reason I shoot a muzzle loader year long.
I am pretty sure Rifled slugs are Not intened for use in a Rifled barrel.Only sabot slugs are to be used.I would read your owners manual.
Steve
I am pretty sure Rifled slugs are Not intened for use in a Rifled barrel.Only sabot slugs are to be used.I would read your owners manual.
Steve
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 11:04 PM
i use to shoot active's there was another slug that shot better then active's that was dan arms slugs
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 07:31 AM
always used smoothbore, breneke slugs. 99% of my deer are under 75 yards. Never understood sighting in a shot gun for 100 yards.. woods to thick to see that far in most places i hunt anyway...
I've hunted almost everyday of my life.. the rest have been wasted!
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 08:33 AM
Never left the smooth bore... shooting the same shotgun for 40 years... don't fix what ain't broken.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 09:47 AM
Just ticks me off ....Im sure it dosent cost much more to make the sabots. the price goes up every year. Lightfield-$20 Hornedy $21 Win supreme $20....Its crazy. I have enough sabots to last another season or two I guess I'll decide what to do once I'm out.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 11:49 AM
Remington 1oz. slugs... on sale usually before the season for less than $2.Just ticks me off ....Im sure it dosent cost much more to make the sabots. the price goes up every year. Lightfield-$20 Hornedy $21 Win supreme $20....Its crazy. I have enough sabots to last another season or two I guess I'll decide what to do once I'm out.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 12:28 PM
I hear ya..I remember buying Federal standard slugs (which my smooth bore loved) for 99 cents, on sale, right before the season. I think I still have a couple boxes. If these prices keep going up I might have to go back to old school. It worked well back then and I sure nothing has changed
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 12:34 PM
Try this
http://www.jgsales.c...ox.-p-4295.html
These babies go through a thicket and still are straight, I thought it was a marketing BS so I tested it and was nicely surprised ..... I haven't got a deer with them yet, just got 100 of them few weeks back. So, this season is a smooth bore all the way. In Europe they don't have rifled shotguns so this is what they shoot for years now. Give it a try like I did, oh they are affordable too... :-)
http://www.jgsales.c...ox.-p-4295.html
These babies go through a thicket and still are straight, I thought it was a marketing BS so I tested it and was nicely surprised ..... I haven't got a deer with them yet, just got 100 of them few weeks back. So, this season is a smooth bore all the way. In Europe they don't have rifled shotguns so this is what they shoot for years now. Give it a try like I did, oh they are affordable too... :-)
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 03:58 PM
Damn!!! THEY LOOK ALMOST TOO GOOD. Go throught the deer, the deer next to it the, 5 trees next to them and is still going. Never heard of these!!
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 03:58 PM
Damn!!! THEY LOOK ALMOST TOO GOOD. Go throught the deer, the deer next to it the, 5 trees next to them and is still going. Never heard of these!!
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 04:05 PM
Damn!!! THEY LOOK ALMOST TOO GOOD. Go throught the deer, the deer next to it the, 5 trees next to them and is still going. Never heard of these!!
LOL, not like that ... all I can say is try it, I'm hooked now and I have no business or royalties from sale, just sharing what I saw...
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 04:48 PM
Damn!!! THEY LOOK ALMOST TOO GOOD. Go throught the deer, the deer next to it the, 5 trees next to them and is still going. Never heard of these!!
You can say that again...
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 06:05 PM
Sabots slugs are big $$ ,one reason I shoot a muzzle loader year long.
I am pretty sure Rifled slugs are Not intened for use in a Rifled barrel.Only sabot slugs are to be used.I would read your owners manual.
Steve
The reason it's recommended NOT to shoot rifled slugs in a rifled barrel is because they supposedly will lead up a barrel . This may be true if you put a crapload of them through without giving the barrel a good cleaning . A little elbow grease and it's no problem ! I bought my rifled barel about 15 years ago or just before Creekside closed up and have been shooting nothing but rifled slugs through it since then .
Owner's manual ? I bought the shotgun in 1965 . I don't think they had rifled slugs then .
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 09:47 AM
What kind of shotgun is it and what type of accuracy do you get?.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:00 AM
Right on, nyantler!Never left the smooth bore... shooting the same shotgun for 40 years... don't fix what ain't broken.
I shoot an old Ithaca 900 smoothbore, I inherited from my grandpa. Only slugs I shoot are the cheapo Remington's. As long as I've been deer hunting in the southerntier, I've had MAYBE 5 times when the extra range of a sabot MIGHT have helped.
