Author Topic: screw in rifled choke: Performance??? (Read 1695 times)

coyote trapper1929 · « **on:** December 03, 2005, 04:46:05 AM »

Hi:

I did not want to go to the expense of getting a new fully rifled barrel for my shotgun , so I was thinking of just getting one of those screw in rifled chokes for my shotgun to use in the shotgun only sections of my state. My questions are:

1. How well do they perform compared to a fully rifled barrel?

2. has anyone used them?

Thanks,

savageT · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2005, 07:04:33 AM »

Hey,
What the heck! For what's invested who knows........Try it!!
Jim

plateshooter · « **Reply #2 on:** December 03, 2005, 07:54:16 AM »

I use a rifled tube in my Remington 11-87. I load my own slugs using a standard shot wad with the Lyman cast slug. A fully rifled barrel rips the wadding to shreads, while the rifled tube does not. I have killed several deer at ranges out to 100yds, and prefer the rifled tube to the rifled barrel for my use. The last time I sighted in, I was getting 6" groups at 100 yds from a bench with open sights. I don't see all that well these days and I would imagine that a scope would cut that group in half.

ron73644 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 03, 2005, 08:17:40 AM »

with a rifled choke tube in a smoothbore, you do not use rifled slugs, do you?

mjbgalt · « **Reply #4 on:** December 03, 2005, 08:27:11 AM »

my dad has a rifled tube and uses rifled slugs. plain old cheapo federals.

he cleans it after shooting but when you only shoot 3 or 4 times each time, the shallow rifling doesnt seem to accumulate much lead.

-Matt

Graybeard · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2005, 09:37:10 AM »

From my personal experience they do quite well with Foster slugs but rather poorly with the newer sabot slugs. If you want to go that route I'd stick to the Foster types.

mikedb · « **Reply #6 on:** April 24, 2006, 02:22:17 AM »

For my 870 SPS Turkey Gun (circa 1995) I use a cantilever scope barrel with a 2X Simmons, rifled tube and Federal Premium Sabots. Usualy it groups 3 in at 100 yds. I have taken deer up to 120 yds. I tried the higher velocity newer slugs (1900 fps) and the accuracy went down, way down. It seems at 1500 fps it is ok. For comparison my sone uses a H&R UltraSlug with Winchester Supremes and groups about 1-1.5 inches at 100yds. He took a deer this last season at 175 yds.

Ranger J · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2006, 06:08:15 AM »

Out to 50 yards or so, using Remington Sluggers I cant tell a whole lot of difference in my fully rifled Mossberg 500 and my 11-87 which has the rifled tube. I have never had to shoot much further than that as I usually hunt in thick woods.
RJ