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Offline jjas

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Old School Slug Gun - Part II
« on: February 13, 2009, 08:30:04 AM »
Last month I wrote about a friend passing on an old Winchester 1200 slug gun and how I enjoyed seeing how well it shot with today's foster slugs. After doing so, I got to thinking about another shotgun I have in my safe that is primarily a turkey gun, but I figured why not see how well it would shoot slugs.

This gun is a Mossberg 500 12 gauge. It has a 28" vent rib barrel w/standard mossberg flush accu-chokes. The only change to the gun is a slip on Limbsaver pad. I mounted a Nikon ProStaff 3-9x40 scope on the receiver with a $6.00 weaver mount, installed the improved cylinder choke tube and went to the range.

For this slug gun experiment I had purchased some Fiocchi 12 gauge slugs (12LESLUG). At $8.00 for 10 the price was right and I had read about how accurate they were in smoothbore guns so I hoped it would be a good place to start.

After sighting in @ 25 yards (one nice ragged hole), I moved on out to 50 and managed a nice 2" group. I moved onto the 100 yard range and instead of shooting groups I figured why not just shoot @ pop cans. After setting up 5 cans, I missed the first one just low. I raised the cross hairs and managed to hit the next four in a row.

I did clean the gun every 5 shots and let the barrel cool. I probably will tweak the elevation adjustments next time @ the range but all in all not too bad.

While not a moa experiment it did prove to me that 100 yards is very doable w/a very inexpensive scope/gun combo that I never dreamed would be this accurate.

Jim
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Re: Old School Slug Gun - Part II
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2009, 01:25:14 PM »
Sounds like you got yourself two good working shotguns there. Why don't you try some sabot slugs for comparison?

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Re: Old School Slug Gun - Part II
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2009, 01:56:10 PM »
Quote from: Huntsman1 on February 13, 2009, 01:25:14 PM
Sounds like you got yourself two good working shotguns there. Why don't you try some sabot slugs for comparison?

Huntsman


Both of the guns are smoothbores, so saboted slugs wouldn't spin w/out the rifleing.  Funny thing is, I've owned 3 or 4 different rifled barrel slug guns over the years and never could get any of them to shoot much better than this Mossberg @ 100 yards (even with expensive saboted ammo). 

Now I know a saboted slug will reach out much farther than the 100 or so yards these fiocchi slugs will, but hell, I've never killed a deer past 60-75 yards anyway.

As a friend recently told me (and I agree) "sometimes I think we make things harder than they have to be".   

Have a good one,

Jim

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Re: Old School Slug Gun - Part II
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2009, 02:17:50 PM »
Well Jim, your friend could'nt have said it better ;)
Those Fiocchi slugs you're using will do you just fine then. Funny thing too is they look just like the ones I bought for my Mossberg 500 20ga slugger too.

The company is called Challenger Munitions out of Quebec Canada, they make all sorts of shotgun shell loads.

Jamie
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