question on 12 slug 2 3/4 ammo

[lonewolf5348]

was wondering if you can use a winchester 2 3/4 slug in a rifled slug barrel,seem my son had a mod37 smoothbore barrel shotgun and just purcased a mossberg 500 slug rifled barrel just to get it on paper at the range.I think after he gets in on paper he will be using the new hornady 12 ga sabot slug made for rifled barrels

[Redhawk1]

was wondering if you can use a winchester 2 3/4 slug in a rifled slug barrel,seem my son had a mod37 smoothbore barrel shotgun and just purcased a mossberg 500 slug rifled barrel just to get it on paper at the range.I think after he gets in on paper he will be using the new hornady 12 ga sabot slug made for rifled barrels

I have done it and I have seen other's do it. The accuracy is not that good though. One of my buddies uses them as finishing shots if needed. A lot less than $2.00 for just a finishing shot with a saboted slug.

[Ranger J]

I have no problem keeping them on the paper at fifty yards in either my Mossberg rifled barrel or my Remington rifled choke.  When I used a shotgun my shots were no longer than that and they are a lot cheaper than sabots.  Even though I now live in Missouri where I can use a rifle I would not be afraid to take either gun to the woods for a similar length shot.  As to whether they would shoot at the same spot as a sabot, I don’t know.  Try it out and let us know what the difference is.  Inquiring minds want to know. 
RJ

[Busta]

They will work, but he will have a lot of lead to deal with in the rifling. Unless he is going to hunt with them, I wouldn't recommend using them. He would have to have a good lead removing solvent, brushes, patches, and a ton of elbow grease. If the barrel has a cantilever scope mount, you can bore sight a scope by looking through the barrel and adjusting the cross hairs accordingly. That will save him the aggravation of a ton of cleaning at the range. The sabots need a clean rifled bore, not one full of lead.

With that said, if all his shots are under 75 yards, why bother with the sabots at all? I have killed several deer with foster slugs through a rifled barreled 12ga out to 100 yards, but you will have leading to deal with. I use a 20ga Ultra Slug hunter with the high performance saboted slugs now, but if you can only shoot 50-75 yards, the foster slugs will do fine at those ranges through a rifled bore.

[lonewolf5348]

I need some info on a mossberg 500 I seen the other day at dick's outdoor shop was a model 500 mossberg plastic black thumhole stock with a ported barrel rifle slug barrel also came with a simmons 2.5x 20mm shotgun scope with rings and bases price was $349.00 anyone have any info on this shot gun???
Next question what would you recommend as far a sabot slugs 2 3/4 I did see a good write up on the hornady slugs but
My son was thinking in geting this set-up any pro or cons on the above,he seem to favor the thumb hole stock,scope can always be upgraded

[Oldtimer]

The Mossberg 500 is a tried and true action.  My only complaint as a slug gun is the heavy recoil due to its light weight.  I still have some Remington 3" slugs that I tried.  I could not believe it when my thumb nearly took my nose off on the first shot, so I fired a second.  It made a believer out of me.  I still have the last three shells out of that box.  Porting would be a great idea on this gun.  I have killed several deer with my Mossberg and like tha idea that accessories are so readily available.
About the slugs for this (or any) slug gun.  Since most people do not reload slugs, the best way is to find out what the gun likes by buying as many different slugs as you can find in your area and then shooting them to see what will work best.  Take several shooting sessions rather than trying to do all that shooting at once.  Recoil takes its toll on the shooter and the results will be skewed if you try to shoot too many times in one session.

[Ranger J]

Forty some years ago I purchased my first shotgun.  It was a Western Field model 550 (Mossberg 500) with a short smooth bore barrel with rifle sights.  I soon learned that shooting rifled slugs through this combination would flat rattle your teeth.  Of course this was just when sighting it in, when there was deer out in front of me I never felt a thing.  I toned down the recoil some by filling the stock bolt hole with #2 lead shot and as I am a lousy iron sight shot I had it drilled and tapped for a scope.  This combo accounted for quite a few deer but later I added a longer cantilevered rifled barrel and this combo is as pleasant to shoot as my Remington 11-87 auto.  By the way that old smooth bore barrel is deadly on quail.  I don’t know how many thousand rounds I have put through this gun with never a hiccup.  If I could own only one gun or had to earn my ‘living’ with one gun that old 500 would be it.
RJ

[mparks]

I've got good accuracy at 50 with the Winchester Foster slugs.  However, shooting them side by side with sabots at 100 yards I really saw the difference.  Groups opened up A LOT with the Fosters.  Like 8-10" when the sabots were 3".

I've found that the best results are to stick with sabots in rifled barrels and Fosters in smooth bore barrels.  If all the shots were within 50 yards, I stick with an open sighted smooth bore and skip the expense of the rifled barrel and sabots all togehter.  People have been killing deer reliably around here with that combo for many years.  A lot of time and $$$ put into extending that range to 100-150(sensible IMO) with sabots and rifled barrels.