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What is the best sabot?
Winchester XP3’s are the best sabots on the market.
Does Winchester make sabot slugs?
Winchester Supreme Partition Gold Sabot, $14.39 per box of five. Buy it. It’s the most expensive slug on the market, but is worth the investment if you want the best.
What is the maximum range of a 12-gauge slug?
A slug also becomes increasingly inaccurate with distance; out to 100 yards, it drops approximately five inches and has a maximum range of approximately 400 yards. In contrast, centerfire projectiles from rifles can travel miles. Shotgun slugs are best suited for uses over short ranges.
Can you shoot sabot slugs out of a smoothbore shotgun?
Shooting sabot slugs through a smooth bore is a waste of money. They will “work” but accuracy suffers and there is no reason to spend the extra money for sabot slugs if you are going to shoot them through a smooth bore. Besides, if they are not flying straight and nose-first, they will not expand as designed.
What choke should I use for rifled slugs?
The conventional wisdom has long been that these slugs perform best with an Improved Cylinder choke. Though ammunition is highly variable, and all guns digest ammunition a little differently than one another, I’d be inclined to start with an IC choke. If your accuracy with this choke is acceptable, stick with it.
Where to buy sabot slugs?
Foster Slugs (rifled)
What’s the most powerful 12 gauge slug?
Most powerful slugs in either 12 gauge, or 20 gauge, are Dixie Slugs. It is a modern reintroduction of the old cordite-powered Paradox Loads, good for everything from pigs to pachyderms. Dixie’s slugs would be much more appealing to me if he could load them faster.
What is the best slug gun?
Savage 212 and 220. Summary: Everything you like about a bolt-action rifle — accuracy and reliability — in a shotgun.
How effective is a 12 gauge slug against a bear?
FloridaState. I am going to carry my 12 ga shotgun in the woods until I decide if I want to switch to a rifle.