200 yds with slugs

[Mike-Mike]

http://www.ithacagun.com/deerslayer3.html

Watch the video. If you click the link it will open in a better format and you can speed it up.

I thought this was interesting. I have several Ithaca's and love them.

What do you guys think?


--Mike

 

[Admin]

The music on that site is awful. 200 yards with a slug is impressive. Were they holding the shotgun at a 45 degree angle when they fired it?

 

[Mike-Mike]

The music on that site is awful. 200 yards with a slug is impressive. Were they holding the shotgun at a 45 degree angle when they fired it?

Watch the video. They got (Relatively) nice groups as well.

 

[arlow]

They have been shooting deer at 200 yards with high end slug guns and high velocity sabots for a few years now. My gun can easily shoot comfortably 150 yards with just a little hold over.

 

[The Goose]

Several weeks back I was shooting out at Shirley R&G when two good old boys showed up to sight in their deer guns. One of them had a single shot H&R 20 gauge with like a 20" barrel and a scope mounted on it. When they went downrange to set up their targets I did a double take when the fellow with the H&R kept on walking down to the 200 yard bunker. He set up a hand drawn target with life sized deer vitals drawn on it. He walked back, fired 6 shots, all well in the vital areas, grunted something about being disappointed in his results, packed up and left.

 

[Twigg]

I saw a guy (a non-NES'r) hit a UN flag with a slug at the 200 yard line at N. Leominster a year or so ago.

 

[rep308]

I remember when they were built in Ithaca. They are pricey, $1,200 MSRP for a pump action is too rich for my blood.

 

[Twigg]

$1,200 MSRP for a pump action is too rich for my blood.

Oof. State Line has a nice but well worn 16ga Ithaca. Cycles nice & smooth.
So many guns, not enough money.

 

[MassMark]

I need to give this a whirl....I can tag em at 100 - 200 yards should be a challenge. I would imagine a Brenneke KO out of my smoothbore Beneilli begins to lose steam fairly quickly after 150. The modern rifled barrels I would think could toss a sabot slug to 200 fairly easily. One of the stats on a 3" Accutip was a 395gr hollow-point cruising at 1900fps.

 

[dixidawg]

The Ithaca has a rifled barrel. I doubt anyone could get accuracy anywhere near that with a smoothbore.

 

[Glock23ONME]

http://www.ithacagun.com/deerslayer3.html

Watch the video. If you click the link it will open in a better format and you can speed it up.

I thought this was interesting. I have several Ithaca's and love them.

What do you guys think?


--Mike

Ithaca 12 guage first gun $100 I love it.

 

[MassMark]

The Ithaca has a rifled barrel. I doubt anyone could get accuracy anywhere near that with a smoothbore.

Well, I'm getting that accuracy at 100, so heck - may as well give it a whirl. Will set up with some Brennekes on the 200-yard bench and give it a whirl...Any excuse to shoot - right?

 

[dixidawg]

Well, I'm getting that accuracy at 100, so heck - may as well give it a whirl. Will set up with some Brennekes on the 200-yard bench and give it a whirl...Any excuse to shoot - right?

Any day you get to pull a trigger is a good day in my book!

 

[MassMark]

Any day you get to pull a trigger is a good day in my book!

Amen brother - I'm reading about 200-yard shots dropping anywhere from 6.8" to 8" out of a smoothbore using Brenneke KO's. This is totally doable. Will post results in the coming week...

Benelli SuperNova Tactical
18.5" Smoothbore
Ghost Ring Sights
Brenneke KO 1oz slugs

Wish me luck...

 

[dixidawg]

I think you're going to need lotsa luck with a 18.5" barrel. Here's hoping you can prove me wrong

 

[MassMark]

I think you're going to need lotsa luck with a 18.5" barrel. Here's hoping you can prove me wrong

Will have a blast trying! I'll shoot groups at 50, 100 and then 200 yards and see what happens...

 

[Woodsloafer]

Here's a 200 yard slug gun (3.5 inch groups at 200 yards), pretty impressive for the price.

http://www.randywakeman.com/Savage220F.htm

 

[rep308]

Here's a 200 yard slug gun (3.5 inch groups at 200 yards), pretty impressive for the price.

http://www.randywakeman.com/Savage220F.htm

Thank you and I hate you, another gun to put on my to buy list. Savage builds accurate guns and the ballistics of the 20 gauge modern saboted slugs is great. Check it out, less than half the price of the deerslayer:

http://www.savagearms.com/220fcamo.htm

 

[KMM696]

Funny, I was reading a Field & Stream article on the American Slug Shooting Association yesterday.... ARTICLE LINK

They compete at 100 yds, - an interesting read. Their current record for 5 @ 100yd is 0.787.

 

[Woodsloafer]

Thank you and I hate you, another gun to put on my to buy list. Savage builds accurate guns and the ballistics of the 20 gauge modern saboted slugs is great. Check it out, less than half the price of the deerslayer:

http://www.savagearms.com/220fcamo.htm

My apologies - it is also on my list. I had a Browning A-Bolt shotgun (12 gauge) that I recently sold at a good profit - the going price for them had gotten so high I could not really justify hunting with it. Plus, I really did not like the recoil of the 12 gauge and I figured some company would come out with a lighter bolt action in 20 gauge (thank you Savage!). The Savage also comes with the accutrigger, which is nice. Several of the 20 gauge sabot loadings are basically the equivalent of the 454 Casull, so I believe that they are adequate.

 

[Twigg]

Thank you and I hate you, another gun to put on my to buy list.

Gotta love this place. eh ?

 

[Viper22]

Here's a 200 yard slug gun (3.5 inch groups at 200 yards), pretty impressive for the price.

http://www.randywakeman.com/Savage220F.htm

Nick's Sport Shop has one of these as of last Thursday.

Its also added to my list.

 

[dooger52287]

Crap man, thats ridiculous!