I found it cheaper to buy anything other than trap loads, lol
I do load lee slugs but they are tame vs say a Rem Slugster Loading sabot is a waste with out a rifled barrel
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I do load lee slugs but they are tame vs say a Rem Slugster Loading sabot is a waste with out a rifled barrel
Jay77
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Some test rounds shot from the 50 yard line. Top group was the kid and the lower group was mine. My scope is a 3x9 crossfire on a rifled mossberg 500. The Hornady SSTs are 3-4 bucks a pop so I don’t shoot slugs too often, only during deer season if I see a deer. So last year I shot 2-3 rounds of that. Even if these are never used during hunting season the extra trigger time is huge benefit to me.
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Jay77
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I do miss buying clearance slugs… The Hornady SSTs have been hit or miss for the last few years. 20 gauge are slowly coming back in steady supply. There was a couple of years the kid hunted with the same box of ammo due to shortages.
What were you using for a load?
Jay77
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Remington Premier STS hull
I grabbed from the Lyman manual.
| Unique | 23.0 | Win. 209 | One Win. WAA12F114 | 1269 | 11,100 |
I grabbed from the Lyman manual.
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Jay77
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This was the Lyman 525 slug. My buddy included this mold with the press and a bunch of them already poured. He literally hooked me up with everything I needed. I just threw in some Unique. I’m going to grab the two MP versions of the 12 gauge sabots when they are both in stock. I love the MP molds.
those are not sabot slugs. Front heavy slug. You might get better groups with those through a smooth bore.
Jay77
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I’ll definitely will give them a try in a smooth bore barrel to see if they are more accurate.
Jay77
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Those primers are on the older side but those are what I’ve been loading up for slugs.
I have used primers older than me., lol.
I was looking into loading sabot with 300 gn 50 cal bullets. The wads where close to $1 each and the bullets where expensive. This was pre covid.
The lyman shuttle cock slugs ate not going to spin much with the wads used for those. Very little benefit even if they do spin.
My friends son had a 20g bolt action full rifled barrel. I have watched him plant 3” groups at 200 yards with those federal 20g copper sabot.
All we really need is Minute of Vital Zone .
When I did hunt here in SE MA where the deer where to be found your lucky to see 50 yards
38ExtraSpecial
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@yanquidog had a buddy shooting the MP slugs out of AA hulls with WAA12 wads and like 19 grains of red dot. Making some of the best Non sabot groups I’ve ever seen.
Keep them 1100-1300 fps and they generally group well.
Lee slug and clays @1150 fps are my most consistent target loads. No idea how well they would be for hunting
Lee slug and clays @1150 fps are my most consistent target loads. No idea how well they would be for hunting
38ExtraSpecial
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A slug at 1000 would drill through an animal. They’re not armor plated. I think a lot of people underestimate a lead slug. 45 cal jacketed hollow points and ballistic tips in a shotgun sabot load at stupid fast speeds might explode when they hit a rib. Not a Lee key drive slug.
The old rem 1oz sluggers are 1750 ish fps. Retaining a good amount more energy down range.
38ExtraSpecial
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Too much. Yeah maybe the shoot flatter but at the 50 yard new England range we shoot deer at anything over 1000 fps is probably overkill.
1750 won’t make it deader. Just make you less likely to practice with your hunting ammo. More likely to flinch.
I’m of the belief that most of the bad shotgun groups I see are due to 3” mags making people flinch than bad accuracy.
