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It will work but you will be more accurate and have more sucess shooting sabots
When it comes to shot guns and slugs it always comes down to what your particular gun likes and the only way to find out is to run a box down the tube.
The box of truth did a mix and match with sabot slugs, rifled slugs in both smooth and rifled barrels. Here is the link if you are interested. The rifled slugs in the rifled bore is on the last page.
Bob
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot46.htm
A lot of flaws in that test.
His test was run at only 50 yard, and the smoothbore did not have a scope. He should have used a scoped smoothbore slug barrel to make things more comparable and he should have done group comparisons at 100 yards. It would have been a whole different story. Fosters shot out of a smoothbore typically group well out to 50-75 yards out of a smoothbore. Occasionally you get a gun and bullet combo that works well at 100. But usually anything over 75 the foster slugs begin to destabalize and tumble. I would have liked to see what they did at 100 with a rifled barrel.
A few years back we were breaking for lunch in a field when one of my buddies, a champion shooter, spotted a deer at the top of the field. He laid his scoped 870 across the hood (ya, not legal, I know) and nailed it with one Remington Slugger. After the whooping and hollering we started betting on the distance. I got out my 100-foot tape and we measured it at over 630 feet - 210 yards.
And just how does it generate spin spin in a smooth bore?
Who won the bet? How far did you each think it was?
Can't recall who won, but I do remember that nobody was even close to 200. Longest guess was around 150.