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A good used Remington 870 or a good used Mossberg 500, either one you can't go wrong and fairly inexspensive.

fishinambition  Posted June 30 ·After a decade and a half of trolling and disrupting the website, frank's finally fed up with Tim's bull****

 

 

 

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I'm no exspert, there are some here who know better than me. What I would look for first is any obvious things like a crack in the stock or forearm, overall condition, does it go "click" when it's dry fired, smooth barrell (unless it's rifled) with no pitting or rust in either a smooth or rifled barrell.

fishinambition  Posted June 30 ·After a decade and a half of trolling and disrupting the website, frank's finally fed up with Tim's bull****

 

 

 

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I'm no exspert, there are some here who know better than me. What I would look for first is any obvious things like a crack in the stock or forearm, overall condition, does it go "click" when it's dry fired, smooth barrell (unless it's rifled) with no pitting or rust in either a smooth or rifled barrell.

 

A "rifled" barrel shoots the sabot slugs, right? Is there a big advantage to the sabots compared to the other type?

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I have a Mossberg 500 and bought the slug barrel off ebay for $40. It fit right on and is accurate. I've had it for over 15 years now and put a lot of rounds through it. If you do research you can find a good deal.

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I'm no exspert, there are some here who know better than me. What I would look for first is any obvious things like a crack in the stock or forearm, overall condition, does it go "click" when it's dry fired, smooth barrell (unless it's rifled) with no pitting or rust in either a smooth or rifled barrell.

 

A "rifled" barrel shoots the sabot slugs, right? Is there a big advantage to the sabots compared to the other type?

 

I believe the sabot slugs can be shot in either, can't see any reason why they wouldn't be. If I'm wrong on this I'm sure someone will chime in. I believe the sabot slugs are faster and probably more accurate. I never shot them.

 

 

Another question: Would a 20 gauge slug shotgun be enough for hunting deer?

 

A 20ga slug will kill any deer that ever lived. With that said you still have to deliver the slug to the vitals for it to do the job, just like any other bullet.

fishinambition  Posted June 30 ·After a decade and a half of trolling and disrupting the website, frank's finally fed up with Tim's bull****

 

 

 

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Sabot slugs need rifling. without it you're throwing expensive knuckle balls.

 

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Here's my slug gun. Remington 870 with a rifled barrel designed by Mossburg for the 870 and purchased from Wal-Mart. After a great deal of research, I settled on Remington Accutip slugs. And here's the performance I got out of mine. 3" groups out to 150 yards. Seriously. At 50 yards, sighted in 3" high, the slug holes were a sideways figure 8. At 100 yards and still 2 inches high, the slug holes were side by side again. At 150 yards, it was 1 inch low. And at 200 yards? Still less than 6 inches center to center but about 12 inches low. I got one shot during hunting season at around 100 yards broadside. It blew both lungs out of the deer but it still went about 40 yards despite the reputation of this slug to dump tons of energy. But then again, I've never had a deer go down instantly and stay down with a slug gun yet.

 

Hands down, this is the best shooting slug setup I've ever used. I think the key, though is the accutip slugs more than anything else.

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Bought a bunch of those green slugs last year on sale.

This after years of being very successful with what I was using.

Tested them pretty extensively in several guns, first time in a long time that I've gone down that road.

Found them to be very accurate and hard hitting. Now my go to slug in 12ga.

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get a 20ga. your shoulder will thank you. a 20gauge slug put in the right spot will do exactly what a 12ga slug will. most 20ga slugs weigh 250-275grain. that's A LOT of energy & lead dumped into your average jersey deer which will mostly be in the 100-125lb range. google some of the energy ballistics. impressive. as for the gun that's up to you....go handle a few and see how they shoulder for you. as for the ammo...yeah Remington accu tips and or lightfields have always done well for me.

 

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