This means you need to choose a robust, solidly built scope. Woods and fields are loaded with everyone from seasoned experts to absolute rookies, all hoping for the same thing: a deer within range that can be killed with a single, well-placed shot.In some areas, rifles are allowed. A slug gun is a shotgun which has been fitted with a choke to shoot slugs which are bullet-like projectiles. The SBE II Slug Gun is built on the same principles but adds a specially designed, heavy-walled, 1:28 twist rifled barrel that stabilizes slugs and sabot-encased bullets for excellent downrange results.
It makes a big difference.”Despite the sketchy reputation of shotgun slugs in the Midwest deer woods, the big takeaway is that consistent accuracy is “not only possible, but you should expect it,” says Brian.Given how precise deer hunters are with so many other aspects—scouting, stand placement, wind direction, scent control and on and on—it is a cryin’ shame when, at the moment of truth, you feel like you’re sending forth a ball of lead with all the predictable accuracy of a knuckleball heading toward home plate.MidWest Outdoors editorial director Mark Strand is a graduate of University of Minnesota School of Journalism with a minor in Fisheries & Wildlife Science.
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Some sabot brands will shoot well out of some barrels and some won’t, just as some barrels will not care for certain varieties of lead slugs. frame, delivers outstanding, long-range accuracy. I would tend to disagree with this assessment. “All I could see was deer fur when I shot!” Go figure. Neither did I, but they worked for a week and a half.Our 5331 members have posted 75093 times in 4803 discussionsThe Cast Bullet Association is an organization of shooters who enjoy shooting cast lead bullets in rifles and handguns for competition, hunting, or informal target shooting. Features: There's something special about hunting with a beautiful gun.
12 gauge slugs are .69 caliber and hits that would normally only wound with smaller projectiles often completely incapacitate game when struck with a slug.
Made in 2018. They’re hourglass-shaped slugs with a permanently fixed post wad that acts like veins on a dart, staying with the slug all the way to impact. Winchester SX4 Synthetic slug gun, 12ga, 22" with full rifled barrel. In the ensuing five decades, I've hunted with an But when my youngest boy and I secured access last fall to a friend's patch of slug-country sloughs and prairie grass on which to hunt western Minnesota whitetails, I knew that instead of cobbling something together for a second slug gun, I wanted to do it right and equip us with a shotgun made exclusively for shooting slugs with reliable precision at ranges out to and beyond 100 yards. Deer hunters who use slug guns out of preference or necessity will find these new models to be more accurate and easy to use than the slug guns of Grandpa's day.
The Plague There are even several shotgun models from various manufacturers that come from the factory with two barrels, one smoothbore and one rifled, making for a do-it-all kit right from the start.Essentially, the addition of a rifled slug barrel to a formerly smoothbore rig will give the kind of accuracy at 100 yards that can be expected of the smoothbore at fifty yards.
Some claim that the added strength and performance of the dedicated slug gun (many fire loads comparable in energy and trajectory to the 45-70) are only designed to stretch hunting regulations to their limits and allow for unethical hunting that, while within the word of the law, are not in keeping with its intended purpose.