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18 Aug 2014, 4:05 pm

Misslizard wrote:

Isn't it rough on the barrel to shoot slugs thru a shotgun?

Most shotgun sabots are made out of plastic, and that's the only thing that touches the barrel.

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18 Aug 2014, 6:24 pm

^that looks really nice and expensive. How do you know if you hit it, when there is nothing left of it?

Oops. I mean that nice .50 cal in the next pic up.

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18 Aug 2014, 6:34 pm

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Misslizard wrote:

Isn't it rough on the barrel to shoot slugs thru a shotgun?

Most shotgun sabots are made out of plastic, and that's the only thing that touches the barrel.

Slugs are bad if you put them in a shotgun with a choke. It kicks like a mule, and can break the barrel, or blow the choke open. I knew a guy who did that with a shotgun unpurpose. Now that he wrecked the barrel, he actually thinks it works better that way? He deer hunts with it. We use shotgun only in the suburbs here, because of the low range. They only go so far, than they drop like a rock. Sabots are a newer technology, and work better than a slug I think. There are rifled slugs people use in smooth bores, but I really think sabots work better.

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18 Aug 2014, 8:15 pm

I thought slugs were supposed to be used with a choke. Shows how little I know about guns.

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18 Aug 2014, 10:42 pm

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I thought slugs were supposed to be used with a choke. Shows how little I know about guns.

Yeah, not the best idea to run solid projectiles through a constricted barrel, bad things can happen... :lol:

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18 Aug 2014, 11:52 pm

So what are chokes used for? I'm guessing it's to control the spread of your shots.

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19 Aug 2014, 12:02 am

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So what are chokes used for? I'm guessing it's to control the spread of your shots.

Got it in one, it's just a constriction at the muzzle of the barrel to tighten up the spread to various degrees, there's a whole system for it, modified, full, open, etc, along with some adjustable numbers that have slots cut in the barrel and a threaded nut to clamp them tighter or looser. Cylinder, or open, choke, is used for slugs, or in the old days, riot guns that were designed to throw very small lead shot in a wide pattern to be ricocheted off the ground into the shins of angry mobs. There's also some weird stuff out there, like duck bill spreaders designed to throw the shot in a flat arc, but they aren't widely used and I can't testify to their efficacy. Someone's also launching a shotgun silencer that screws on like a choke tube and makes the gun massively unwieldy, but might be kinda useful for waterfowl hunting where you don't have to move much.

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19 Aug 2014, 11:18 am

Dox47 wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I thought slugs were supposed to be used with a choke. Shows how little I know about guns.

Yeah, not the best idea to run solid projectiles through a constricted barrel, bad things can happen... :lol:

However, in the case of "Rob's" poor boy, back yard, redneck, reverse engineering.
Rather than getting a bullet to fit the gun, he got the gun to fit the bullet! :lol:

he liked it soo much, he swears by doing it again?

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19 Aug 2014, 12:17 pm

yournamehere wrote:

Dox47 wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I thought slugs were supposed to be used with a choke. Shows how little I know about guns.

Yeah, not the best idea to run solid projectiles through a constricted barrel, bad things can happen... :lol:

However, in the case of "Rob's" poor boy, back yard, redneck, reverse engineering.
Rather than getting a bullet to fit the gun, he got the gun to fit the bullet! :lol:

he liked it soo much, he swears by doing it again?

Here's some poor boy, back yard, redneck engineering from an earlier time.
The lost art of "cut-shells" that I never knew existed until I saw this video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3M46XVfVOU[/youtube]

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19 Aug 2014, 2:36 pm

^^^ I am going to have to try that the next time I go out. I won't tell anyone what or why I'm doing it either. I will just let them watch me do it. For the effect. Don't think that would be a good idea in a loader. I will use a fox model B.

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