rifled slug tubes

[kingj]

Has anyone used these?

[Empty Quiver]

Have one on the 870, it will impress you at 100yds. The expense of running it will likewise impress you. If ammo prices are a factor, think long and hard about how you will use the gun. If $4 a trigger pull doesn't bother you, and you understand it won't shoot buckshot, jump in.

[IOWA DON]

I had a Thompson Center TCR with a smoothbore 12-ga slug barrel threaded for choke tubes and got a rifled tube for it. It shoots the old fashed rifled slugs very accurately at 100 yards. I got a couple extremely small groups with the Winchester/BRI (hour glass shaped) slugs, barely over 1-inch at 100 yards. I never tried it with the more modern high velocity sabot slugs.

[Empty Quiver]

Seems I exagerated on the slug price, was out yesterday and most were in the $12 -$16 range, not $20.

[daddywpb]

I have an extended rifle choke tube in my 11/87 and it shoots great with the cheapo Winchester foster slugs. Sabots fly all over!

[12ptdroptine]

Seems I exagerated on the slug price, was out yesterday and most were in the $12 -$16 range, not $20.

OK so you were off a little...by my math the average I spend is $2.80 everytime I pull the trigger.I try to think of it as "Expensive to sight in" but not bad to shoot while hunting..However after they become 2 seasons old I wonder about the accuracy changing Drop

[Graybeard]

I have limited experience with such a tube in a Remington 870. It helped greatly with foster slugs but not so much so with sabots. My suggestion would be to stick with fosters if you use a smooth barrel and a screw in rifled tube. If you must use sabots get a fully rifled barrel for them.

[Redhawk1]

Never heard much good about them. If you have a smooth bore stick with the rifled slugs and you will achieve the same results. If you truly want better accuracy, get a rifled barrel.

[Shawnee Gene]

Carlson Tube, Federal Tru-Ball slugs(LR).

[Graybeard]

Never heard much good about them. If you have a smooth bore stick with the rifled slugs and you will achieve the same results. If you truly want better accuracy, get a rifled barrel.

That's not completely accurate info. In my limited experience they do definitely improve the accuracy of those rifled foster slugs by a bunch. They will cut groups in half or perhaps even better. They are worthwhile if you are gonna shoot fosters but they will not make a smooth bore into as accurate a gun as is a fully rifled barrel shooting sabot slugs.

[Redhawk1]

That's OK Graybeard you are entitled to you opinion. I am just going by my own experience, seeing how I live and have hunted in a shotgun only state. I have tried them with less than stellar results.

Give me a goods smooth bore, and a rifled slug, and I will find one that will shoot semi-accurate. Shotguns with smooth bore's and rifled tubes have very limited range with good accuracy.  But if you really want accuracy, GET A RIFLED BARREL.

[Graybeard]

Yup on that we can agree. My rifled barrel 870 would put Remington copper sabots in less than 2" at 100 yards. My wife's smooth bore with the rifled tube would do about same at 50 yards but without the rifled tube it was at best a 4" or 5" gun at 50. So it definitely helped hers. It didn't make a rifle out of it tho.