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Offline JDHasty

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Re: Slug/Buckshot gun
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2017, 04:16:54 PM »
Leaning this way:

Start w/just the sights.  Try Breneks and Remington Sluggers for a foster slug out of a mod and full choke.  Sometimes a gun likes another Foster better, but that Slugger is usually the best for us.  IDK if you will beat that with a sabot and rifled tube and a foster or a Brenek may really surprise you out of a bird gun.  2 inches at 50 yards is pretty common. 

My experience with those tubes and Fosters is the first one fills up all the groves with lead w/o giving much, if any, accuracy improvement.

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Re: Slug/Buckshot gun
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2017, 04:32:39 PM »
Leaning this way:

Start w/just the sights.  Try Breneks and Remington Sluggers for a foster slug out of a mod and full choke.  Sometimes a gun likes another Foster better, but that Slugger is usually the best for us.  IDK if you will beat that with a sabot and rifled tube and a foster or a Brenek may really surprise you out of a bird gun.  2 inches at 50 yards is pretty common. 

My experience with those tubes and Fosters is the first one fills up all the groves with lead w/o giving much, if any, accuracy improvement.

Thanks, I'll do that.

I have to decide which gun to go with.  Have it narrowed down to a CZ Upland Ultralight or a Browning Citori.  The Browning is a heavy trap edition, adjustable comb, 30" ported barrels; it would tame the recoil but I don't know if I can bring myself to take it into wet, brushy deer country and get it scratched up. 

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Re: Slug/Buckshot gun
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2017, 04:35:34 PM »
The reduced recoil slugs have plenty of punch.  I would try them in the CZ. 

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Re: Slug/Buckshot gun
« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2017, 04:48:29 PM »
6lbs vs 9lbs - the CZ would be lot easier to carry around.

The sights are universal.  I'll order them 1st and I can switch them if I want.

 

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Re: Slug/Buckshot gun
« Reply #19 on: November 14, 2017, 04:55:48 PM »
6lbs vs 9lbs - the CZ would be lot easier to carry around.

The sights are universal.  I'll order them 1st and I can switch them if I want.
Don't compromise on the buck shot, Federal Flight Control.  It will be hard to find, but the stuff is so much better you want to make the effort.

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Re: Slug/Buckshot gun
« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2017, 08:03:31 AM »
Fired 2 slugs from the CZ and quickly decided that I never want to do that again.  :yike:, :yike:   I can handle recoil but my cheek went numb for a while.

I think that I’ll stick with my A5 for slugs and give up the selective fire slug/buckshot idea.

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Re: Slug/Buckshot gun
« Reply #21 on: January 08, 2018, 11:08:16 AM »
Ive hunted in RI alot which is a shotgun only state for gun season. Ive cleanly killed the most deer there with smooth bore 18-20 inch barreled shotguns. Before they outlawed buckshot a few years ago I would load my pumps and semi's slug first then 00 buck. Although only a few times did I shoot twice. Those laurel thickets are a doozy
Practical accuracy and a packable rifle.
Blued steel and walnut is always better.

 


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