Remington 12ga.sabot slug

Wild Billy · April 15, 2000, 07:06 PM

I bought a box of Remington "Copper Solid" hollow point sabot slugs.
There is a warning on the box saying that the ammo is designed for use in fully rifled barrels or rifled choke tubes only.
I have a Mossberg 590.
I suppose I can fire those sabots in my gun...or not ?

Rex Feral · April 15, 2000, 07:20 PM

You can fire them, but don't expect any accuracy. they need to be fired from rifled barrels to stabilize properly.

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Dave McC · April 15, 2000, 08:10 PM

As a LOOSE rule, Bill, sabots work best in rifled bbls, and not so well in rifled chokes and smoothbores.

Also, noted during some herd control hunts on Md's Eastern Shore, the sabots are wonderfully accurate(in some guns), but blood trails were longer and skimpier. This wasn't all that important to us, but folks on crowded public lands where shooting a deer turns into a foot race sometimes might want to take note.

April 15, 2000, 07:06 PM	#1
Wild Billy Member Join Date: April 8, 2000 Posts: 20	I bought a box of Remington "Copper Solid" hollow point sabot slugs. There is a warning on the box saying that the ammo is designed for use in fully rifled barrels or rifled choke tubes only. I have a Mossberg 590. I suppose I can fire those sabots in my gun...or not ?

April 15, 2000, 07:20 PM	#2
Rex Feral Senior Member Join Date: February 27, 2000 Location: Southern NH, USA Posts: 471	You can fire them, but don't expect any accuracy. they need to be fired from rifled barrels to stabilize properly. ------------------ Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

April 15, 2000, 08:10 PM	#3
Dave McC Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 13, 1999 Location: Columbia, Md, USA Posts: 8,811	As a LOOSE rule, Bill, sabots work best in rifled bbls, and not so well in rifled chokes and smoothbores. Also, noted during some herd control hunts on Md's Eastern Shore, the sabots are wonderfully accurate(in some guns), but blood trails were longer and skimpier. This wasn't all that important to us, but folks on crowded public lands where shooting a deer turns into a foot race sometimes might want to take note.