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Re: Slug guns in 12 ga
« Reply #45 on: June 30, 2016, 08:41:43 PM »
If you're just hunting to fill a tag and in an area infested with deer, I would just get an 870 with a bird barrel on it. You should be able to hit something to about 75 yards.  If you are after big bucks and are serious about slug hunting get a Remington 1187 with a fully rifled  hastings slug barrel, chambered for 3" slugs.  you will have to order it and they will try to get you to go with a 2 3/4".  Get the 3".  Then put a leopold 3x9 on a cantilevered scope mount.  you will be accurate to close to 200 yards, shooting sabot slugs. prob 4-6" groups.

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Re: Slug guns in 12 ga
« Reply #46 on: June 30, 2016, 08:47:02 PM »
Just curious, why not a front stuffer? Great accuracy out to 200 yards, legal to put a scope on it if used during modern season
I've pondered that. A shotgun can reload quickly and ammunition is immune to weather, but if that were all I had I'd use one.
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Re: Slug guns in 12 ga
« Reply #47 on: June 30, 2016, 09:29:21 PM »
I have run a moss burg 500 with a rifled barrel and the hornady sabots  accurate to 125 to 150 .. but I have killed way more  deer with a 20 inch smooth bore and number two buck fifty yards and in its pretty wicked .
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Re: Slug guns in 12 ga
« Reply #48 on: June 30, 2016, 09:46:25 PM »
Smooth bore 870, seen way more deer killed with these than any other weapon. And if with a little practice 125 to 135 is not bad, I had to hold at the back for a lung shot at that distance with 3" Remington Sluggers. Practiced a little with 2L bottles at 75-100 yards after shooting a pattern board.

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Re: Slug guns in 12 ga
« Reply #49 on: July 01, 2016, 02:48:09 AM »
Nothing will consistently beat the Ithaca DS II & DS III.  Nothing. 

 


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