Anyone switch back to smooth bore

[ants]

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

Edited July 7, 2012 by ants

[fasteddie]

I put Winchester and Federal Foster rifled slugs through my rifled barrel . I have done this for years .

[ants]

Never thought of try'n that

[ELMER J. FUDD]

Ants, what sabots are $5 a round?

[Early]

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!

[sbuff]

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

[Larry]

i use to shoot active's there was another slug that shot better then active's that was dan arms slugs

Edited July 8, 2012 by Larry

[G-Man]

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...

[nyantler]

Never left the smooth bore... shooting the same shotgun for 40 years... don't fix what ain't broken.

[ants]

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.

[nyantler]

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.

Remington 1oz. slugs... on sale usually before the season for less than $2.

[ants]

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

[bkln]

Try this

http://www.jgsales.com/12ga-ddupleks-monolit32-steel-slug,-1-1-8oz,-2.75in.-5rd-box.-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... :-)

[ants]

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!!

[ants]

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!!

[bkln]

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...

[Pygmy]

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...

[fasteddie]

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 .

[sbuff]

What kind of shotgun is it and what type of accuracy do you get?.

Steve

[Skillet]

Never left the smooth bore... shooting the same shotgun for 40 years... don't fix what ain't broken.

Right on, nyantler!

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.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Ants, what sabots are $5 a round?

The Remington Corelokt can be from 22 up to 25. That is why I have been woking up reloads for them. I have been a little side tracked the last few months but will back at development in a few weeks. Was getting a 6" group at 100yards. Not what I want and the sabots seem to be hanging with the bullets too long. Using the Remington Corelokt bullets I can reload for about $7 a box of 5...all new components.

[WNYBuckHunter]

I made the move to a muzzle loader partly due to the cost of slugs. I just hated sighting and practicing my slug gun because it cost me an arm and a leg.

[ants]

With my new gun I first went with the Remington buck hammers because I heard that they were accurate and hit hard. Since they were only 7 or 8 bucks a box, it was a no brainer. As luck would have it the buck hammers flew like crap. The gun hated them. I had to resight with the expensive $tuff.

[fasteddie]

I carry the shotgun opening day of gun season . After that , I carry the ML . The ML is more fun to shoot !

[Skillet]

I'd like to use a hand grenade, just once. Presto! - Killed, field dressed, skinned, and ground.