Polehammer wrote:From all I've read/been told.
In a smooth bore barrel shoot rifled slugs or solid slugs. Expect to hit a dinner plate at 50m tops.
In a rifled barrel ONLY use sabot slugs or you'll wreck your barrel. Expect to get 3" groups at 100+m. (Yet to hear definitively maximum accuracy). If you want to shoot buckshot or anything other than sabot you need to change your barrel back to smooth or you'll wreck it.
I've got a rifled barrel on order for my Adler straight pull. Didn't realise any of the above when I ordered it or the difficulty/cost ($145 per 50) in buying sabot slugs in Victoria or i wouldn't have bothered. All I dam say is it better be worth it or I'll be sore pissed.
I don't recall what sort of groups I was getting with Lee's 7/8-ounce, but I was pleased with them out to 50m. Not sure I've ever grouped them further than that. My shoulder really doesn't like playing with them. They're a sabot slug as they fit into a standard shot cup. Cast from recovered .22LR bullets makes them virtually free as well.
I ordered a rifled choke a few years ago but it never came in. I'm interested in your results, but I would only be using a rifled choke, I have plenty of rifles to do whatever I might want to do with slugs, but with better accuracy and far cheaper.
I might have to hurt myself shooting some groups I think