870 w/ rifled barrel. What slug to use?

Krom · October 21, 2001, 02:38 PM

I have a 20ga 870 with a rifled barrel. I am going deer hunting this year, and was wondering what rounds you guys would suggest i use. Last year i shot a nice 10pt using Rottwiel(sp?) slugs. Since i have a rifled barrel, should i be using a sabot? Thanks alot guys.

Coronach · October 21, 2001, 11:31 PM

IIRC, the rule is as follows:

Rifled slugs in a smooth barrel, sabots in a rifled barrel

Sorry, I don't hunt and I've only ever used smoothbore SG barrels. But I do know how to pronounce sabot.

Mike

Dave McC · October 22, 2001, 04:14 AM

The 20 ga Rottweil Brenneke may be one of the best all time deer rounds. VERY effective. Sabots are oft quite accurate, but results are not quite on par with the full bore diameter slugs.

The ONLY way to find the best load for you and your 870 is benchtesting. Old threads here will give you more input.

Krom · October 22, 2001, 11:30 AM

Great. Thanks for the replys, now im gonna do a search on the old threads.

Shok · October 22, 2001, 12:59 PM

Coronach is right "Rifled slugs in a smooth barrel, sabots in a rifled barrel". You shoot lead through a rifled barrel it will lead up and the accuracy will be horrible. Know a guy who did it and it took forever to get the lead out.

I get 6" group at 100yards with smoothbore and rifled slugs. While rifled barrel with sabot gets 2" groups at 100yards.

Good luck,

Shok

October 21, 2001, 02:38 PM	#1
Krom Junior Member Join Date: October 17, 2001 Posts: 13	870 w/ rifled barrel. What slug to use? I have a 20ga 870 with a rifled barrel. I am going deer hunting this year, and was wondering what rounds you guys would suggest i use. Last year i shot a nice 10pt using Rottwiel(sp?) slugs. Since i have a rifled barrel, should i be using a sabot? Thanks alot guys.

October 21, 2001, 11:31 PM	#2
Coronach Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 1999 Posts: 3,147	IIRC, the rule is as follows: Rifled slugs in a smooth barrel, sabots in a rifled barrel Sorry, I don't hunt and I've only ever used smoothbore SG barrels. But I do know how to pronounce sabot. Mike __________________ The axe bites into the door, ripping a hole in one panel. The maniac puts his face into the hole, cackling gleefully, "Here's Johnny...erk." "And here's Smith and Wesson," murmurs Coronach, Mozambiquing six rounds of .357 into the critter at a range of three feet. -Lawdog "True pacifism is the finest form of manliness. But if a man comes up to you and cuts your hand off, you don't just offer him the other one. Not if you want to go on playing the piano, you don't." -Sam Peckinpah "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein

October 22, 2001, 12:59 PM	#5
Shok Senior Member Join Date: January 25, 2000 Location: IOWA USA Posts: 204	Coronach is right "Rifled slugs in a smooth barrel, sabots in a rifled barrel". You shoot lead through a rifled barrel it will lead up and the accuracy will be horrible. Know a guy who did it and it took forever to get the lead out. I get 6" group at 100yards with smoothbore and rifled slugs. While rifled barrel with sabot gets 2" groups at 100yards. Good luck, Shok __________________ "In 1789, when used without any qualifying adjective, 'the militia' referred to all citizens capable of bearing arms." Akhil Reed Amar, Yale University ``If we moms can push 9 pound (4 kg) babies through our bodies, some of them with heads as big as bowling balls, surely we can push [gun control] legislation through the halls of Congress,'' Dees-Thomases MMM founder. "Small arms, too, are weapons of mass destruction," Louise Frechette deputy secretary-general for the U.N. small arms conference

October 22, 2001, 04:14 AM	#3
Dave McC Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 13, 1999 Location: Columbia, Md, USA Posts: 8,811	The 20 ga Rottweil Brenneke may be one of the best all time deer rounds. VERY effective. Sabots are oft quite accurate, but results are not quite on par with the full bore diameter slugs. The ONLY way to find the best load for you and your 870 is benchtesting. Old threads here will give you more input.

October 22, 2001, 11:30 AM	#4
Krom Junior Member Join Date: October 17, 2001 Posts: 13	Great. Thanks for the replys, now im gonna do a search on the old threads.