who has used slug loaded shotguns for deer and what’s your accuracy?

7 Comments

1. Charles B says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   Most will shoot accurate to 100 yards. I have taken many deer with a shotgun at the 80-100 yards away. A rifled barrel with a saboted round will make a 150 yard shot possible with not problems for a good shooter.
2. glock509 says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   100 yrds with a shotgun is way to far.slugs should be 50yrds or less and less than 20 for an accurate shot.
3. kidd says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   Slug shotguns and slug ammunition have changed dramatically in the past few years. When I first began hunting white-tailed deer with 12-gauge shotgun slugs over 30 years ago, the best – in fact, the only – choice was a Foster-type "rifled" slug in a smoothbore Improved Cylinder barrel with open-notch sights. Fifty yards was a sensible shot. If you tried to push it much past 70 yards, you’d be just as well off throwing rocks.

   Today there are a wide variety of new slug designs, bunches of new guns and new barrel designs in which to shoot them, and in many deer-hunting areas you are as likely to see a whitetail hunter carrying a factory-made synthetic-stock bolt-action slug gun with a high-magnification variable scope sight as you are to see a hunter armed with a traditional open-sight lever-action .30-30 deer rifle.

   The best of today’s slugs and slug guns can deliver accuracy as good out to 100 yards, 150 yards and even beyond, as can many ordinary production-grade rifles. And when you turn to the question of projectile energy, just note this: The retained energy of one of Remington’s current Premier Copper Solid 1-ounce sabot slugs at 100 yards is 1,364 ft/lbs. The retained energy of a traditional lever-action’s 170-grain soft-nose .30-30 bullet at the same distance is actually 9 ft/lbs less.
4. Slim Hick says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   I took a doe last year, at 90 yards. I used an old (at least 30 yrs) Winchester model 12 (non-rifled barrel) 12 GA and a Federal Premium slug, designed for whitetail. I sighted my gun at 70 yards, so I aimed three inches high. The slug struck her right where I had placed the crosshairs, no drop. Took her straight off her feet, she didn’t move an inch.
5. Chris H says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   I have a Mossberg 590 with ghost ring sights and that shoots slugs into about 4" at 50 yards.
6. Randy C says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   My little Rossi 20 ga. has shown incredible accuracy and impact at 100 yrds using Federal 3" rifled slugs. Being a smooth bore with a relatively short barrel, I was pleasantly surprised with a 4" group without benefit of rear sight or scope. I’ve never used it for deer hunting, but am very confident it would be more than sufficient.
7. paul67337 says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

   i can get 5" patterns at 100 yds with regular iron sights and an ic tube with federal rifled slugs.