I have a 12 guage slug gun. I bought it because it had open sights, whereas the H&R Ultra Slug I had did not come with them. I have not shot it much and so far have only fired the Brenneke 600 grain slug (the kind designed for rifled barrels with the gold colored coating on it), no sabot slugs yet. The stock design for me is nearly perfect. I am 6'2" with ape arms. No firearm firing one of these slugs is going to be light, but my cheekbone escaped with no bruising. Overall, despite the lighter weight it seemed to kick less than the ultra slug. How much of that is due to the porting I cant say. The barrel pressure that far down the barrel cant be too much given breech pressure only exceeds 10000 psi by a little.
As far as accuracy goes it was quite acceptable, even occasionally overlapping two of those big slugs on the target at 50 paces. Not bad in my book. Nothing walking in the USA will walk away from a well aimed slug like that.
My only complaint was that the rear sight was not mounted perfectly inline with the bore and I had to offset the rear sight quite a bit to get it on paper. You can actually see the offset by looking down the barrel. I tried taking it off and remounting it but to no avail. Not too bid a deal, I have to offset the front sight of my No4 MK 2 as well. I may actually mount a compact shotgun scope on it eventually.
