Rifled choke tube

[daddywpb]

I have a Remington 11/87SP and just ordered a 21" barrel with rifle sights. It comes with an improved tube and a rifled tube. I'm going to put my turkey choke in it and use it this year, but I'm hoping to use it for slugs as well. I read on another post that a modified tube would give better accuracy with the forester type slugs than the imp cyl, but I'm not sure about the rifled tube. Is it to use the saboted slugs? The rifling in it seems to be very shallow.

[Busta]

If it is the flush (not extended) rifled choke tube? My son has the 20" barrel for his 870, I.C. choke and flush rifled. We have never shot the I.C. tube because the rifled tube is so accurate with the old Rottweil Brenneke's and the Winchester Foster's (1600 fps). There is some choke in the rifled tube too. We tried some of the cheap WOLF slugs, they shot good at 50 yards, but were all over the place at 100. I think they are too slow, and lost stabilization somewhere between 50 and 100.

He uses his barrel for turkey also, the Remington Super Full extended tube does a fine job.

If you want to shoot sabots, get the Remington extended rifled tube. We have never shot saboted slugs through the flush mount, so I can't tell you how well it will stabilize sabots.

[daddywpb]

Busta,
Thanks for the info. It is the flush rifled tube. A friend of mine had told me that the forster slugs weren't supposed to be used with the rifled tube, but it made sence to me that that is what it was for. I have a couple boxes of the old Brenneke to try, and I picked up a couple boxes of the Winchester, Remington and Federal Tru-Ball cheapo slugs to try also. Our local 50 yards range is open this coming weekend, so I've got some shootin' to do. I didn't know that Rem had an extended rifled tube. Do you know what the advantage is? I have a fully rifled barrel that I've been using with the Remington sabots. It shoots fine, but the sabots are $12 for 5 rounds. Thanks again.
Steve

[Ranger J]

I have shot Winchester Foster type slugs through the rifled choke on my 11/87 for years with good results.  I too found the price of sabots a little high.  This was when I lived in Southern Illinois and the first few years I lived in the Missouri Ozarks.  Both places presented shots less than 50 yards on average.  I finally switched to a center fire rifle in MO as I got tired of carrying the shotgun around.  Still I wouldn’t feel under gunned with it in a deerstand today.
RJ

[daddywpb]

I will try them at 100 yards also, but the chances of getting that long of a shot around here is pretty slim. We only hunt hogs in the shotgun only areas around here, and the palmettos and and brush are usually very thick. A short barreled slug gun with open sights is perfect for that kind of hunt.