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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: jharstad on August 05, 2011, 03:49:35 PM

Title: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: jharstad on August 05, 2011, 03:49:35 PM: i have a benillie super nova and right now i only have the full choke in it cause i lost the outher ones. and im thinking about going bear hunting in a firearm resticted area. and was wondering if i had to take the choke out to use the rifield slugs or is it better to leave it in. i can not use steel shot in the choke. thanks
Title: Re: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: bobcat on August 05, 2011, 04:44:18 PM: Do not shoot it without a choke tube! Unless you want to ruin your barrel. You should probably pick up a improved cylinder tube for the slugs.
Title: Re: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: 700xcr on August 05, 2011, 06:37:37 PM: Or a fully rifled slug barrel for it.
Title: Re: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: boots on August 06, 2011, 06:27:38 PM: Quote from: 700xcr on August 05, 2011, 06:37:37 PM
Or a fully rifled slug barrel for it.

Finding one of these for a Nova is difficult at best. They are also pricey, almost better off just buying a separate shotgun
Title: Re: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: Bob33 on August 06, 2011, 06:30:24 PM: Open cylinder (no choke) would be best. Forcing a slug through a choke is not good.
Title: Re: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 06, 2011, 06:58:28 PM: Quote from: bobcat on August 05, 2011, 04:44:18 PM
Do not shoot it without a choke tube! Unless you want to ruin your barrel. You should probably pick up a improved cylinder tube for the slugs.

X2 :tup:
Title: Re: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: marlin on August 06, 2011, 07:50:27 PM: yeah listen to everyone else. dont shoot it without a choke tube. that will probably ruin the threads so you would never get a choke tube back in. Ive shot slugs through a modified choke, but full choke probably isnt going to be the best. IC is what is usually recommended on the boxes of rifled slugs.
Title: Re: hunting with shotgun slugs
Post by: rock on August 07, 2011, 09:34:59 AM: Buy one of the savge 220f slug guns, bolt action slug gun, with winchester XP3's good to 100 yards on bear :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup: