Great White Hunter, John Kerry

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Ask any hunter. You hunt deer with either a rifle or a shotgun slug (which you cannot do with a double-barrel shotgun).

It's been a while since I've fired slug out of any shotgun. Please educate us on why a slug can't be fired from a 12 gauge double barrel.


Double barrel shotgun is usually one barrel moderate and one barrel full choke, slugs and full chokes do not mix...Could cause serious damage to the gun or operator. Full choke brings the diameter of the barrel down to hold the shot together longer and make a better pattern at long distance. 12 gauge slug is appreciably larger than the barrel, could run the risk of sticking and blowing up the breech or splitting the end of the barrel...

Need a rifled barrel or a barrel the same inside diamter all the way down teh barrel for a slug.

Hope this helps.

Dan


It didn't blow up my 20 gauge Ithaca full choked barrel when I fired the 5/8 oz Foster style slugs through it. It also didn't seem to affect the accuracy either. At least out to 40 yards which is about as far as I would use it. The slugs would usually stay inside the bead coverage of the raybar front site. Just put the bead where you want the slug to go. The lands on the slug tend to squish down a bit on the full choke.
 
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