Slug gun

James Williams · Nov 22, 2011

My wife bought me a Mossburg 500 slug gun.I decided to try it this year,and I love it.Theres no tracking also.I am hunting in a corn field with large rock breaks,50 yards ia about it,does any one have any pros or cons about them.

jimmy

Gun guru · Nov 22, 2011

I had a Mossberg 500 slug gun. I sold it to a buddy of mine that wanted a home-defense shotgun. It came with a pistol grip and the standard stock.
I already had 3 shotguns so I sold this one for the same money of what I paid for it.
I remember firing a few boxes of slugs threw it, at 25 yards it was off by about 6 inches. It would not be a good gun to hunt with, unless close range. I will say this, it is a great home defense gun for under $250, I think I paid $229 at a gun show in 1999 or 2000.

As a side note go on youtube and type in AA12 shotgun and watch this fully automatic shotgun deliver piles of lead downrange, and it has a high explosive warhead, or fragmenting round. So the AA 12 is also a grenade launcher and 100+ round drum clip too.

Mel in SW Iowa · Nov 22, 2011

Is it rifled or smooth bore? Open sights or cantilevered scope mount? I have a 2 1/2 X scope
on a rifled barrel. Sabot slugs are supposed to
work the best in rifled barrels, conventional slugs
in smooth bore, but your mileage may vary. Try out
everything you can get locally. My Mossberg will
hold a 2 1/2" group at 100 yds with sabots if I have a good day, but 4" with conventional slugs is
the best so far. I don't know what maximum range
is, I have heard about 150yds if you are a good shot. My longest shot that dropped a deer was
about 90yds.

oldtanker · Nov 22, 2011

A gun with a slug barrel and scope shooting SABOT slugs [i:7a8052d28f]can[/i:7a8052d28f] get 8" groups at 200 yards. Thats about the effective range IF you know what you are doing.

Rick

Anonymous-0 · Nov 22, 2011

Exactly.no tracking. Had one (12 gauge) before I came over here and wouldn't have traded it for anything in the world. Wife did quick enough when I left but that's another story...... Pull the trigger and see the belly. Just have to walk over and slit the throat.....

the tractor vet · Nov 22, 2011

It all depends on what sabot slug your shooting as to how well it will shoot . I am using a 5500 Mossberg and now that i have run thru a bunch of different brands of Sabots i found that it is a tack driver with the Hornady SST's and it sure impressed me last season , also impressed everyone that was in the group that day . I am not joking here i dropped my dear at 276 paces from where took the shot . First round i shot wright under it's belly as i had a bead on the middle of the side just behind the shoulder i saw it hit the snow under the deer as the heard was on a dead run breaking out of the woods from the drive . Pulled up and lead it a bit and made the shot and the deer dropped in fifteen feet . Took out both lungs and the heart . This round only drops around 6 and a half inches at 200 yards.

old popper · Nov 22, 2011

I use a Mossberg 500 20 ga with the rifled slug barrel. Mine likes Remington "copper solids". Shoots like a rifle. Bought my grandson a youth model just like it. He bagged a 10 point buck last season with it. First shotgun season opens here Dec 3. I guess we'll do it again.

4010 puller · Nov 22, 2011

I always preferred remington 870-1100-1187 but I dont think mossberg is a bad gun at all for the price. My dad has a 835 and we have shot slugs through it with a scope and it does great, he bought it used for super cheap as well. So, if you can buy a decent gun for cheap that shoots ok it should be fine. I would say any 12 gauge pump in the $250-300 or less range new is great as long as you are happy with it. Brand loyalty with guns is just like on here with tractors, its all in what you like.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 22, 2011

Mossberg shotguns are good firearms, I have 3 of them, don't own a slug shooter anymore though. The 500 that I used to have had a rifled 18" barrel and it would kick the snot out of you. It kicked 10 times harder than an old 10 gauge single barrel that I have. Wished I had kept it, tried to buy it back from the guy I sold it to several times, I believe he told me that he sold the 18" barrel and put a 24" rifled barrel on it.

davpal · Nov 23, 2011

I have an H&R single shot 12 guage rifled slug barrel gun I bought a couple of years ago. It shoots the Winchester Supreme 1700 feet per second 400 grain sabots. Does very well and is extremely accurate. Downside is the price of the slugs and the thing has a bull barrel on it and is way too heavy to be fun to carry in the woods. In fact it"s downright miserable to carry it. like the weight of a railroad bar in your hand all day.

doubleN · Nov 23, 2011

We've got two 500's, a 12 and a 20. Good guns. Have a Rem. 870 too. Rem. is a touch more refined but I still kind of like the heft and feel and "clankity-clank" of the 500.

oldtanker · Nov 23, 2011

I didn't mention that the 500 is a throw away gun. They will wear out if you do a lot of shooting, say 300-1000 rounds a year. I have a freind who shoots shot gun a lot who is on his 3rd one sense 1972. But before they hit their wear out point the 500 is a lot of bang for the buck and most guys will not shoot enough to go therough one in a life time.

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