Also available in a reduced recoil loading. We tried "rifled slugs" like the Remington box says you can and they shoot fairly well. For achieving accuracy at 100 yards and beyond, however, a dedicated rifled slug barrel … The accuracy is similar to that of a typical rifle. Rifled slugs will work just fine in a rifled barrel. Packed in convenient, easy-carrying 5-round boxes. In my playing with them I found that rifled barrels and even rifle choke tubes causes foster slugs to shoot worst groups in many cases. Western PA. The reason is that 20ga rifled barrels were not SAAMI standardized before 2000, so there is a chance to run into barrels with different twist rates. You might have to try a few different options to get one that likes your rifled barrel. Jun 19, 2005 #1 . Because of their design with the plastic cylinder, the barrel rifling creates a much more stable trajectory that increases the accuracy and effective distance. BattleRifleG3 G&G Evangelist. Slugs Slugger® Rifled Slugs. Smooth-bore shotgun barrels are quite a bit less expensive than rifled shotgun barrels, and Foster type slugs, as well as wad slugs, can work well up to 75 yards in a smooth-bore barrel. Always in the forefront of deer slug technology, we redesigned our 12-gauge Slugger Rifled Slug for a 25% improvement in accuracy. Rifled shotgun barrels were developed after the fact to improve performance and accuracy with rifled slugs. This is what BRENNEKE has to say about your question. 11,867 169. If it is shotgun ammo it will shoot out of a smooth shotgun barrel. Shotguns are by deffinition smoothbores and rifles have rifled barrels.
Also, at 1760 fps muzzle velocity, our 3" 12-ga. Magnum slugs shoot 25% flatter than regular 12-ga. slugs. Accuracy – while the rifled slugs (Foster & Brenneke) are accurate for their design, sabot slugs win this comparison hands down. If you have a rifled barrel why not buy some slugs designed for a rifled barrel. After 2000, most 20ga rifled barrels are made according to SAAMI specs, which set the 1 in 24″ twist rate. The slugs are bullet shaped and the range is considerably more than a smooth bore shooting slugs. The "rifled slugs" box says can be used in smooth bore or rifled barrels. To be technically correct, when the barrel is rifled the shotgun becomes a rifle using a shotgun action. Slug accuracy - Rifled Foster Slugs vs Sabots and other rifled barrel slugs Discussion in 'The Powder Keg' started by BattleRifleG3, Jun 19, 2005. I heard a fellow say at the gun show that foster slugs in a smooth barrel can actually be more accurate than rifled slugs. This "kid" Has about 40k in college loans and is newly married with very little time to hunt because of two jobs anyway. The rifled slugs are designed to fire through a rifled barrel. The design allows the slug to engage the rifling and spin once it leaves the muzzle. [I added rifled but that is what they are talking about] Link to the answer. The Schrifle rounds are designed for that twist rate, thus will better perform in post-2000 barrels. If you look at a rifled slug you find that the rifling on the slug is in the opposite direction as the rifling in the barrel this gives a place for the lead to go when it is displaced by the rifling in the barrel.