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Shotgun slugs & chokes

Post by on_one_wheel » 07 May 2017, 8:43 am

Shooting slugs through a full choke.

No problem, Not recommended or downright dangerous?

I'llbe shooting OOSG with my full choke and it might be handy to blast the odd slug but im a little bit worried about slugs v full choke.

Thoughts?
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Post by Oldbloke » 07 May 2017, 9:30 am

I'm unclear what the question is?
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Post by AusTac » 07 May 2017, 9:39 am

Do it all the time, no problem at all, the slug will just swage down, thats what the " rifling " on foster slugs is for i beleive, it doesn't impart any spin

If you can remove the choke and whip a cylinder in it'll be better for accuracy but i wouldn't think twice about shoving slugs or 00 buck though a full, all my guns are in one peice
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Re: Shotgun slugs & chokes

Post by on_one_wheel » 07 May 2017, 3:28 pm

Cheers lads ... I'll be able to fire them with my eyes open now, knowing that my barrels not going to explode
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Post by AusTac » 07 May 2017, 4:23 pm

On that note - has anyone ever had a choke being reamed/ opened up? I've booked a certain shotty of mine for a coat of cerakote and don't really want to cut the barrel aftet that, plus i'll loose the front factory fitted iron sight if i was to cut i assume a smith is the best bet?
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Re: Shotgun slugs & chokes

Post by Die Judicii » 08 May 2017, 7:30 pm

I have not personally fired slugs at all through a choke.
Recently I acquired quite a few packets of them, and have asked the same question of quite a few F/arms shops as well as G/smiths.

I seem to have got an overall definate NO from all of them.
Open choke ONLY is what they said.

Whether you can or can't,, this little black duck is not willing to risk it with my shotties.
Not even the roughie of them.

Theoretically ,, forcing something bigger through a smaller hole right at the tip end only, of a thin walled tube, has got to be "stretching" the friendship if you'll pardon the pun.

Something has got to give eventually.
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Re: Shotgun slugs & chokes

Post by Oldbloke » 08 May 2017, 7:49 pm

Perhaps if you have interchangeable chokes run with modified. Safer and SGs will still be a very tight pattern.
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Post by bladeracer » 08 May 2017, 7:53 pm

Die Judicii wrote:Theoretically ,, forcing something bigger through a smaller hole right at the tip end only, of a thin walled tube, has got to be "stretching" the friendship if you'll pardon the pun.

Something has got to give eventually.



What "gives" is the soft lead slug, as it's designed to.
I do struggle to fathom why the slug doesn't just grab the choke and strip the fine threads out of the barrel, but it's probably held tight by the 12,000psi of pressure in the bore until the slug leaves the muzzle?
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