![]() If you want to optimize the versatility of your bird gun, you need to upgrade yours like I did mine. You aren’t swinging one of these at fast-rising quail or decoying mallards. But such shotguns are not conveniently general-use shotguns. Think Savage 220 Slug Gun, Browning A-Bolt Shotgun and the discontinued H&R Slug Hunter single-shot. Heavy barrels are screwed to heavy actions. The ideal slug gun is built stiff like a rifle. Today, with a multitude of sabot slug shells available to shoot through rifled slug barrels, slug gun accuracy has dramatically improved. The hollow in the back of a Foster slug creates thin walls that flare under pressure for a good gas seal - increasing velocity and accuracy. The spirals don’t really spin the bullet, but they make it easier for the slug to squeeze through various chokes. The Foster-style slug with spiral grooves in it came along in the 1930s. 684 inch of a turkey choke could be disastrous - even with soft, malleable lead. 709-inch diameter of a modified choke, the. Squeezing a lead slug from a nominal bore diameter of. Adding injury to insult, smoothbore slugs had to be built undersized because ammo makers never knew what choke constriction shooters would use. For one thing, you can’t make a bullet accurate until you give it gyroscopic spin via barrel rifling. Back in the bad old days, slug guns were notoriously inaccurate because they spit full-bore lead slugs down smooth barrels with chokes near the muzzle.
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