What is your largest animal taken with a slug?

mikenbarb · May 13, 2008, 02:59 PM

What is the largest big game animal you have taken with a shotgun and slug? Also, what type of slug and what range was this shot made from? Mine is a 315lb. Black Bear at 110 yds with a 3" 1 oz. BRI sabot slug.

xm21 · May 13, 2008, 08:02 PM

A big whitetail deer in Nov 06 from a 20gauge with fixed modified choke.It was 18 steps away from the base of the tree I was sitting in.The slug was a 5/8 oz Remington Slugger that hit the center of the neck and did not exit.I don't know how much the buck weighed.

mikenbarb · May 14, 2008, 08:13 PM

Noone hunts with slugs???????

.45 COLT · May 14, 2008, 09:47 PM

When I lived in a shotgun-only area, I took several nice deer, nothing spectacular. Mostly with handloaded Punkinballs, a couple with handloaded LEE slugs.

DC

kristop64089 · May 15, 2008, 05:24 PM

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I don't hunt with slugs as I live in a rifle state.
I have been in-field, with no luck(with slugs)

gdvan01 · May 15, 2008, 05:44 PM

Old (not in use) telephone pole that was being used as framing for an older part of the firing range. One week during qualifications when the students had to watch the prerequisite tapes, myself and another instructor took an 870 down to the firing line, loaded with 5 slugs and blasted away at the pole. After a week, we won.

I've only hunted with rifles and handguns...that was the best I got.

BlondieStomp · May 15, 2008, 06:06 PM

Don't let my harpoon prop fool you, I took this baby with a 7/8 oz fiocchi reduced recoil rifled slug. The sound of racking my 870 scared it half to death anyway, so the slug through both shoulders(flippers?) finished him off. Dead right there!

mikenbarb · May 15, 2008, 08:52 PM

ROFl, Thats a bigun. I got a large chest freezer if you need it. Sushi anyone?

alfred · May 18, 2008, 07:21 PM

Mine was a Dove sitting on a twig in 1958.Winchester slug and JC Higgins 12 gage bolt action Shotgun.Had I thought I was able to hit it,I would never have shot at it.I learned a very valuable lesson about such that day.alfred

May 13, 2008, 02:59 PM	#1
mikenbarb Senior Member Join Date: October 10, 2007 Location: N.J. Posts: 1,111	What is your largest animal taken with a slug? What is the largest big game animal you have taken with a shotgun and slug? Also, what type of slug and what range was this shot made from? Mine is a 315lb. Black Bear at 110 yds with a 3" 1 oz. BRI sabot slug. __________________ Mike B. Gun control= Being able to hit your target. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pifinnercircle

May 14, 2008, 08:13 PM	#3
mikenbarb Senior Member Join Date: October 10, 2007 Location: N.J. Posts: 1,111	Noone hunts with slugs??????? __________________ Mike B. Gun control= Being able to hit your target. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pifinnercircle

May 15, 2008, 05:44 PM	#6
gdvan01 Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2006 Location: Home of the first First Lady Posts: 463	Old (not in use) telephone pole that was being used as framing for an older part of the firing range. One week during qualifications when the students had to watch the prerequisite tapes, myself and another instructor took an 870 down to the firing line, loaded with 5 slugs and blasted away at the pole. After a week, we won. I've only hunted with rifles and handguns...that was the best I got. __________________ NRA Endowment Life Member Proud Son of a former Tomb Guard

May 15, 2008, 06:06 PM	#7
BlondieStomp Senior Member Join Date: March 22, 2006 Location: cypress ca Posts: 222	Don't let my harpoon prop fool you, I took this baby with a 7/8 oz fiocchi reduced recoil rifled slug. The sound of racking my 870 scared it half to death anyway, so the slug through both shoulders(flippers?) finished him off. Dead right there! __________________ Hammer in my hands, still pounding on a screw!

May 15, 2008, 08:52 PM	#8
mikenbarb Senior Member Join Date: October 10, 2007 Location: N.J. Posts: 1,111	ROFl, Thats a bigun. I got a large chest freezer if you need it. Sushi anyone? __________________ Mike B. Gun control= Being able to hit your target. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pifinnercircle

May 13, 2008, 08:02 PM	#2
xm21 Senior Member Join Date: April 29, 2008 Posts: 177	A big whitetail deer in Nov 06 from a 20gauge with fixed modified choke.It was 18 steps away from the base of the tree I was sitting in.The slug was a 5/8 oz Remington Slugger that hit the center of the neck and did not exit.I don't know how much the buck weighed.

May 14, 2008, 09:47 PM	#4
.45 COLT Senior Member Join Date: May 18, 2004 Posts: 308	When I lived in a shotgun-only area, I took several nice deer, nothing spectacular. Mostly with handloaded Punkinballs, a couple with handloaded LEE slugs. DC

May 18, 2008, 07:21 PM	#9
alfred Senior Member Join Date: March 29, 2008 Location: Pembroke,Georgia Posts: 149	A dove.No Joke! Mine was a Dove sitting on a twig in 1958.Winchester slug and JC Higgins 12 gage bolt action Shotgun.Had I thought I was able to hit it,I would never have shot at it.I learned a very valuable lesson about such that day.alfred __________________ I AIN'T DEAD AND I AIN'T QUITTING!