Range day and slugs.... :)

I had a bit of time on my hands so decided to do a little target practicing. I wanted to try a few different slugs through my Mossberg 500 rifled barrel…
I started off with a cheaper slug (1^st shot) just to get it on paper from 45yds out…
Shot #1 and 2 (Remington AccuTip) almost touching but a little off center so adjusted the scope which gave me shot #3 and 4 almost touching too…..
Took the target out to 75yds and took shots #5, 6 and 7 producing a 2.5” group…. Not bad…..

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Left the target out at the 75 yd mark and took 5 shots (Winchester Dual Bond) which produced about a 5” group….
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Looking through my ammo box I noticed a few challenger slugs and Winchester super X slugs… Not the best choice for a rifle barrel but figure I would give it a try anyway….
I took 3 shots at 40 yds with the challenger slugs through my Mossberg 500 rifled barrel and It produced a 4” group….

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I had a box of Winchester Super X rifled slugs and thought I give them a try and see how they do through the Mossberg 500 rifled barrel….
I took my target out to 75yds and took 4 shots producing a nice tight 3” group….Very impressed with the cheaper priced slugs…
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I wanted to take one last shot (Win super X)at a closer range just to see where it would hit and it came in dead center…

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Since most of my shots for deer/bear should be under 50 yds I think the Winchester Super X 2 ¾” rifled slugs will do just fine for now....
When and if I get a chance (more time and money) I plan to try a few more slug types just to see what they can produce....
Happy Shooting... :)

Good post, I used the same slugs in my savage testing, the Winchester rifled slugs are a lot cheaper. I found that cleaning the barrel between shots when using the Winchester slugs made a big difference in the groupings. The remmy accutips had closer and more consistent groupings when exposed to repeated shots with no cool down and no cleaning between shots.

My personal findings: Winchester rifled slugs for the range days for cost savings, and remmy accutips (or Federal Premium copper) for hunting due to consistency.

The pics of the Remington Accu Tip surprised me.....very small hole for a slug, at least small compared to what I normally shot.

The pics from the Challenger and Winchester slugs are more like it, nice big hole, to do the damage that you want.

For the 50 yrd shot I wouldn't spend my money on anything else.

I shoot those Winchester dual bonds out of my 20 gauge HR slug hunter and they shoot amazing. Nice post frank thanks for sharing.

Wish everyone around here would take the time to do that with their rifles as well. Also great when they use a measured range instead of guessing. I have a measured 85 yd range in the bush that has been called 150-200yds......:rolleyes:

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I have a measured 85 yd range in the bush that has been called 150-200yds......:rolleyes:

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When the guys from the camp saw my range for the first time I had to pull out the range finder to prove that what they swore was 400 yrd was only 250.....made me question a lot of the old long shot stories I had been hearing :)

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Great post!!

Surprised with the accuracy of a rifled slug from a rifled barrel.

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Surprised with the accuracy of a rifled slug from a rifled barrel.

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Im not sure if its true but ive been told the rifling on a slug is the oppsite hand of the rifling in a barrel there fore the barrel overrides the slug.

Some nice groups. Dont matter what you feed her theres deer down.

I shoot the rem. accutips out of my 870 rifled with a
barrel and scope and get very good groups out to 100yards plus.

Those mossberg guns have a slow twist rate so a slower slug would be ideal. Also try Winchester rack master slugs. Cheap and ideal for slug gun and can be used on a rifled barrel. Big holes also and a slower slug. However if it was me I would load up on the accutips.

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Originally Posted by pbonura

Those mossberg guns have a slow twist rate so a slower slug would be ideal. Also try Winchester rack master slugs. Cheap and ideal for slug gun and can be used on a rifled barrel. Big holes also and a slower slug. However if it was me I would load up on the accutips.

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I was looking for them to try (they have some great reviews) but read they stopped making them......Only whats left on the shelf and not finding any in the places I visited...

Nice shootin.

That's funny. I thought I was the only one who pulled out my rangefinder whenever I was skeptical about someone calling 250 yards on a shot I guessed was under 100. Now they just ask me what the range is whenever I show up at a kill site before they start with the "amazing stories". But hey, fishing stories and hunting stories are what makes hunt camps so much fun.

i tried accutips with my 870 just could not get a consistant result seemed they went all over. went to light field hybrid elites solid piece of lead seems to work quite well

My Ithaca 37 Deerslayer digests most slugs reasonably well (3''-4'' at 80 yards) but Brennekes and Challengers are the best performing (2.5''-3'' at 80 yards) . However , the Challengers leave a lot of lead in the bore . It baffles me because their alloy is alleged to be harder then most other slugs . I never Brinell-tested the alloy but find it contradicting . --- The bore is mirror-smooth (not pitted) . --- I guess I should have mentioned that mine still utelizes a 20'' smooth bore .