slug type for rifled chokes

[montveil]

What kind of slugs can one use with a smoothbore 12 ga and a rifled choke??

[Busta]

I think any of the current production slugs can be shot in the rifled tubes. The newer high speed slugs will probably not do as well as they would in a fully rifled barrel, and some of those may not be suitable in a tube. The OLD Remington Copper Solids that were produced about 10 years ago were the only ones I am aware of that were not safe to shoot through choke tubes. I think it was due to there extremely hard sabot. Read the boxes for warnings.

Do you have a flush tube or extended? My son shoots Rottweil Brennekes out of a flush mount tube in his 870, very accurate. It will shoot the Winchester Foster Slugs good as well, but they don't cut a hole like a Rottweil Brenneke.

The old Browning extended rifled tubes the they put in the earlier A-Bolt Slug Guns were some of the best. Now most of the major choke tube companies make them as well.

[dougk]

I found with my Baikal 12/30-06 combo using Remington Slugger worked the best with a IC or rifled choke.  The patterns were tighter with the rifled choke.

[Huntsman1]

I've had good success with Remington 3" Buckhammers out of my Win 1200 w/deer bbl & rifled Carlson choke tube out to 50yds. I'm sure that I'd be just as deadly out to 75!

[corbanzo]

Though they can be shot in rifled tubes, if you are using rifled slugs, they will throw off the spin, and throw off your accuracy.  My slug gun is a smoothbore, and I only use rifled slugs out of it, using sabots gives me poor accuracy.

[Huntsman1]

Though they can be shot in rifled tubes, if you are using rifled slugs, they will throw off the spin, and throw off your accuracy.  My slug gun is a smoothbore, and I only use rifled slugs out of it, using sabots gives me poor accuracy.

Throw off what spin? rifled slugs don't actually spin, the so-called rifling is to aid id passing thru any choke so it conforms or squishes thru the choke. I've fired both the Winchester 1oz Fosters & the Buckhammers thru my Carlson rifled choke tube and they hit relatively the same spot at 50yds. I was also at the understanding that a rifle choke tube would also aid in the stability of a Fosters slug?
Correct me if I'm wrong here fellas and I'll zip it.

[vabowhntr]

I use the Hastings slugs from an 870 w/18.5 inch barrel with an extended RCT.  I get sub 2" CTC groups with Hastings low recoil and sub 2.5" CTC 3 shot groups with Hastings 2 3/4 inch slugs.  That is at 75 yards.  At 50 yards the low recoil load has shot several 1 hole 3 shot groups where you had to look to see where the second and 3rd slugs cut a little more of the target out.  This is my hunting gun in the pine thickets. Last time out with the regular 2 3/4's I shot the slugs at their box, and  at 75 yards all 5 shots hit the box they came out of.