Sluggers vs. Sabot Slugs

[Mossy Oak]

Are Remington Sluggers and Remington Sabot Slugs both acceptable for use in a smooth shotgun barrel, or is one of these meant ONLY for rifled shotgun barrels?

 

[JonJ]

Sabots for rifled barrels.
Rifled slugs for smoothbore barrels.

 

[BillK]

You can use a sabot in a smooth bore, but accuracy will be shi#.

 

[JonJ]

You can use a sabot in a smooth bore, but accuracy will be shi#.

And why bother at $3-4 a round. You could always get a rifled choke. That's a little better but still not optimum.

 

[hunter46spring]

Sabots are only for rifled barrels. The rifling in a regular slug is not to stabilize the projectile just to crush down and help seal gasses

 

[MassMark]

Even a rifled choke in a smoothbore may not release the sabot from the bullet - causing it to tumble. The only sabot-type solution I have seen for a smoothbore is the Brenneke K.O's. (yellow trimmed box) It's a Sabot with a "pusher" that will get the slug spinning in a smoothbore. Sluggers seem to be the fodder for smoothbore guns, but with barrels a relatively inexpensive option for many shotguns, I'm at a loss as to why people still use them. The technology behind sabots is really something. I was shooting Remington Accu-Tips and Hornady SST's and was quite surprised at the groups I was getting at 100-yards.

 

[arlow]

Yup

Sluggers (AKA Foster or Rifled slugs) for smoothbores

Sabots for rifled barrels

 

[arlow]

, but with barrels a relatively inexpensive option for many shotguns, I'm at a loss as to why people still use them.

I use a pumkin chucker for my walking gun. With open sights it is dead on at 50 yards. More than accurate enough for still hunting or doing drives. Plus the rifled slugs are much cheaper than sabots. So that is why I keep my smoothbore with foster slugs. I reserve sabots for my scoped stand gun.

 

[MassMark]

I use a pumkin chucker for my walking gun. With open sights it is dead on at 50 yards. More than accurate enough for still hunting or doing drives. Plus the rifled slugs are much cheaper than sabots. So that is why I keep my smoothbore with foster slugs. I reserve sabots for my scoped stand gun.

True enough - I used to hunt deer with a side by side 16ga LeFever. Which reminds me - I need to track down a firing pin.....