I have a new Savage 220 slug gun which I will be using with 20 ga. Remington Accutips this fall. It will easily take out the x ring on a target at 100 yds. Previously I have used a Remington 870 in 12 ga. The Brenneke slugs worked great with the 870, dropping the deer quite nicely. Before the last two years, I used 12 ga. Buckhammers and they were brutal on both ends of the gun. I look forward to hunting with the Savage. I believe it gives me a significant advantage in accuracy over the 870.

so sorry about the double post. I have been expirencing technical difficulties with my pc Please forgive me

I have not seen any of those rackmaster slugs here in Ohio yet but I sure do want to try them. I have been using sabots but the ones I use (SST) don't expand as they should. They are very acurate in my gun but they do not make a large wound channel and leaves little in the way of a blood trail. Perhaps another brand will work better or I am going back to lightfield lites I shot a nice buck 2 years ago those sabot slugs and it ran a long ways before there was any blood trail at all. another hunter harvested that buck. I once used the lightfield but went to the sabot for more accuracy but those lightfield slugs put a deer on the ground like it was hit with a sledge hammer. perhaps you could do aa in depth comparison of the performance of varios slugs This is great stuff, Phil, keep it coming

I still shoot the old remington sluggers but most of my shots are under 75 yards where I do my hunting in western MN. I put a Tru Glo sight on my Browning BPS stalker and it seems to do the trick. Deer tend not to go very far if you hit them with one of those slugs.

When I worked at Dicks sporting goods, all the slugs mentioned in the article sold well with good reason! The Lighfields seemed to have a very loyal following...with some of my customers making claims that they could," drop shots in a tea cup at 200 yards all day" with them.
What say you of this claim Sir Phil?

Ralph -- I would believe they could hit a large tea kettle at 200 yards if they could shoot, had a solid bench rest, and the wind wasn't blowing.

i have an h&r ultra slug hunter as well but it likes the remington accutips in 20 guage. very, very accurate gun for the money. mine is paired up with a leupold 3x9x40.

@Sapper49. My brother has and 11-87 as well that is a smoothbore but he has a rifled choke tube that he uses to shoot Remington Sluggers out of. He has taken deer out to 100 yards with it and dropped them cleanly in there tracks.

Found this post a bit late. I picked up a Mossberg combo before rifled tubes came out, with a 28" vented bird barrel and a 24" smoothbore, no-choke slug barrel, that beats the heck out of me if I put more than 25 slugs downrange but with a 2x Weaver on top, I keep Them within a 2-1/2-3" group at 100 yards with plain old Federal one-ounce Forster slugs, so long as I clean it every 10-15 shots. That was after much trial and many errors over 3-4 years; when I got 5 groups like that I did a BAD thing; I went to Walmart(!) and bought all they had of that lot number, about 75 boxes as I recall; this was in the mid-80's so forgive the memory. I still have most of those slugs; I sight the gun in for deer every year in case anyone in the family wants to use it, as I've decided I like my .41 Mag pistol for this role better, but in that gun, that barrel, that lot number I'm a happy camper; several have fallen to it, and it's kinda fun to blast a clay bird the kids have set up for .22 targets with it now and then!