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Does shooting rifled slugs in a rifled shotgun affect accuracy?
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should make the accuracy better
I was having the opposite problem. The slugs were hitting all over the place. Trying to figure out if I should spend the arm and leng for sabot slugs, or if another brand of rifled slugs will work.
Shooting rifled slugs out of a rifled barrel will ruin the rifling (the twisted grooves that spin the slug) in your barrel. Shoot sabots with a rifled barrel and rifled slugs out of a smooth bore.
no it wont. the rifling in the barrel is made to form with the plastic casing that the slug sits in. I would think that you might ruin the rifling if you shot a rifled slug out of it.
thats what I was figuring, thanks for the advice.
ive shot both rifled and not rifled out of my rifled gun now im just going 2 go with not rifled slugs 2 be safe
Sabot rounds only in a rifles barrel.
Mutt...rifled slugs do not sit in a plastic case (also known as a sabot) Rifled slugs have rifling that makes direct contact with the barrel, which is why they are intended to be shot out of a smooth bore.
Without referring specifically to any of you, most of you are wrong. Shooting a rifled slug in a rifled barrel will not damage the barrel. The lead is designed to be soft enough to deform rather than deforming the barrel, which would be very difficult for a lead projectile anyway. The main question is the match of your particular barrel and a particular slug. It won't damage anything, but it may not be more accurate, either. You must determine that by shooting different brands/kinds of slugs in your gun. My gun is very accurate with rifled slugs, my dad's (same gun & barrel) is not. He shoots sabots.
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Shooting rifled slugs out of a rifled barrel will ruin the rifling (the twisted grooves that spin the slug) in your barrel. Shoot sabots with a rifled barrel and rifled slugs out of a smooth bore.
I was having the opposite problem. The slugs were hitting all over the place. Trying to figure out if I should spend the arm and leng for sabot slugs, or if another brand of rifled slugs will work.
no it wont. the rifling in the barrel is made to form with the plastic casing that the slug sits in. I would think that you might ruin the rifling if you shot a rifled slug out of it.
thats what I was figuring, thanks for the advice.
ive shot both rifled and not rifled out of my rifled gun now im just going 2 go with not rifled slugs 2 be safe
Mutt...rifled slugs do not sit in a plastic case (also known as a sabot) Rifled slugs have rifling that makes direct contact with the barrel, which is why they are intended to be shot out of a smooth bore.
Sabot rounds only in a rifles barrel.
Without referring specifically to any of you, most of you are wrong. Shooting a rifled slug in a rifled barrel will not damage the barrel. The lead is designed to be soft enough to deform rather than deforming the barrel, which would be very difficult for a lead projectile anyway. The main question is the match of your particular barrel and a particular slug. It won't damage anything, but it may not be more accurate, either. You must determine that by shooting different brands/kinds of slugs in your gun. My gun is very accurate with rifled slugs, my dad's (same gun & barrel) is not. He shoots sabots.
should make the accuracy better
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