Shotgun slugs
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Love hunting with slug guns. I’ve got a 220 with a VX5 with firedot. It loves the 3” Accutips and is as good as rifle. Very accurate and I have full confidence using it.
I used to shoot Remington cor-lokt slugs to 150 from that setup. Think I took a dozen whitetail with it, dad and brother just as many. Devastating, but a lot of meat loss. Also expensive and i refused to shoot them until it got colder and i had thicker clothing. They hurt, bad.I’m starting from a 12 ga 870
Am planning on picking up a cantilever rifled barrel and scope and hustling to find a sabot that shoots well out to say 150. From the above, sounds like i could be short on time. (And money?)
Remington copper solids weren’t as nasty or fast, but were deadly accurate and killed well.
I wouldn’t hesitate to try Barnes copper slugs.
But- probably better off putting a scope on the muzzy, for the sake of your shoulder and possibility of concussion.
I ended up with Winchester Partition Gold sabots out of my Remington 1187 with a scoped rifled barrel. Went to 3" because my buddy always blasted away at deer and ran out, then kept bumming slugs off of me. "Sorry, these won't work for you!" Once we separated to different timbers I went back to 2 3/4" and shortly after that I started with my muzzleloader. Never looked back after that. Three reasons. Easier on my shoulder, I wanted to make it harder on myself having only one shot and I could expand my hunting by using it for firearm plus muzzleloader only seasons.
Starting from scratch I would go with a muzzleloader. Generally much more accurate, can be used for other large game and less recoil. If you have a shotgun and don't want to spend money on another gun then you will be fine with regular Foster type slugs with a limited range. 50 yards open sights is about it. They have PLENTY of punch and do an incredible amount of damage. I shot one at 20 yards straight on and she did a complete backflip and never twitched. If you buy a rifled barrel and a scope for it you are rapidly approaching the cost of a decent muzzleloader and could just step up to that and be done with it.
Once we separated to different timbers I went back to 2 3/4" and shortly after that I started with my muzzleloader. Never looked back after that. Three reasons. Easier on my shoulder, I wanted to make it harder on myself having only one shot and I could expand my hunting by using it for firearm plus muzzleloader only seasons.Starting from scratch I would go with a muzzleloader. Generally much more accurate, can be used for other large game and less recoil. If you have a shotgun and don't want to spend money on another gun then you will be fine with regular Foster type slugs with a limited range. 50 yards open sights is about it. They have PLENTY of punch and do an incredible amount of damage. I shot one at 20 yards straight on and she did a complete backflip and never twitched. If you buy a rifled barrel and a scope for it you are rapidly approaching the cost of a decent muzzleloader and could just step up to that and be done with it.
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got any of those partition golds left?I ended up with Winchester Partition Gold sabots out of my Remington 1187 with a scoped rifled barrel. Went to 3" because my buddy always blasted away at deer and ran out, then kept bumming slugs off of me. "Sorry, these won't work for you!"
Starting from scratch I would go with a muzzleloader. Generally much more accurate, can be used for other large game and less recoil. If you have a shotgun and don't want to spend money on another gun then you will be fine with regular Foster type slugs with a limited range. 50 yards open sights is about it. They have PLENTY of punch and do an incredible amount of damage. I shot one at 20 yards straight on and she did a complete backflip and never twitched. If you buy a rifled barrel and a scope for it you are rapidly approaching the cost of a decent muzzleloader and could just step up to that and be done with it.
Some. Not many.
thanks for all the comments and thoughts!
For me it came down to the attraction of having a shotgun slug setup that was totally different from anything else in the arsenal, vs the benefit of having a common 50 cal muzzy platform shooting bh 209 that I’ve already got experience with, and consumables for. I figure after this hunt is over there is some benefit to having two muzzies ready to go, one scoped and one open sighted, so I could thereby justify buying another of the same damned optima v2 I already have.
On the one hand it makes no sense to duplicate, but the scope/ sight distinction carried the day.
So we’ll be rocking two scoped muzzleloaders, one just temporarily so, for this hunt. After a brief run to Colorado for nephews first rifle tag, I’ll get to the business of sighting them in.
For me it came down to the attraction of having a shotgun slug setup that was totally different from anything else in the arsenal, vs the benefit of having a common 50 cal muzzy platform shooting bh 209 that I’ve already got experience with, and consumables for. I figure after this hunt is over there is some benefit to having two muzzies ready to go, one scoped and one open sighted, so I could thereby justify buying another of the same damned optima v2 I already have.
On the one hand it makes no sense to duplicate, but the scope/ sight distinction carried the day.
So we’ll be rocking two scoped muzzleloaders, one just temporarily so, for this hunt. After a brief run to Colorado for nephews first rifle tag, I’ll get to the business of sighting them in.
