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cgbills · September 14, 2009, 01:56 PM

Would shooting 00 buck shot through a rifled slug barrel cause the wadding to spin and throw the shot clear of the target? I ask because I was shooting 2 ¾ 00 buckshot through my 20in rifled slug barrel. At 25 yards there were no hits on the man sized silhouette. I closed to 20 yards, same thing. It was not until I closed to about 15-18 yards that I got one small hit on the lower part of the silhouette, a gut shot. I repeated and only one hit a little further up. I didn’t think that the spread out of a rifled slug barrel would be that bad. Did the rifling spin the shot off that far?

September 14, 2009, 01:56 PM	#1
cgbills Senior Member Join Date: December 9, 2006 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 274	Rifled slug barrel and buckshot Would shooting 00 buck shot through a rifled slug barrel cause the wadding to spin and throw the shot clear of the target? I ask because I was shooting 2 ¾ 00 buckshot through my 20in rifled slug barrel. At 25 yards there were no hits on the man sized silhouette. I closed to 20 yards, same thing. It was not until I closed to about 15-18 yards that I got one small hit on the lower part of the silhouette, a gut shot. I repeated and only one hit a little further up. I didn’t think that the spread out of a rifled slug barrel would be that bad. Did the rifling spin the shot off that far? __________________ "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke