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Hey guys im looking to pick up deer hunting this year but i dont have a rifle with a proper caliber for deer hunting cept my benelli nova pump and my saiga-12. the benelli is nice cuz i can get a slug barrel for it but idk any of you guys have seen the price of these OMG! expensive...more than i payed for the whole shotgun besides its a little long for carrying through the woods and trying to bring up for a deer in a stand. so what i was thinking is using my saiga with some slugs, only problem is idk which ones to choose. since it is a smooth bore ill have to use rifled slugs. which ones do you guys recommend for accuracy and most stopping power at a distance?

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Oleg also sells paradox chokes. I have one but haven't been able to try it being my S12 is gettn sexied up at rifle dynamics for about three more months. Beats payn $$$$'s for a new barrel but then again u get what you pay for so?.?.?

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Like the guys above, i'm a fan of the 1560fps 2-3/4" Sluggers and 2-3/4" Winchester Super X 15 packs. I've consistently hit bowling pins at ~90yds, which is the farthest i've been able to test it out so far.

 

Nice shooting Beef.

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Remingtons sluggers work great at 100 out past that they seem to drop pretty fast. winchester super x is also good. After 1000 rounds of centurion slugs I'm actually doing really good with them kinda figured out their quirks so I'm gonna try them this year they make a mess out of ground hogs

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Nice shootin BC. I'm also a huge fan of Remy Sluggers but another thing to think about is sabots through a rifled choke or extension. I have a Paradox rifled choke, and also the choke adapters that take winchoke rifled tubes. They will give you even better range and accuracy. Higher pressure and the round is spinning like a bullet to keep it more stable. Those raised spirals on so called "rifled slugs" are doing nothing but swaging the slug down the barrel to keep a good deal.

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What optic are you using? I would certainly be proud of that target, were it mine. Great job.

Optic? Optic?!

 

I don't need no stinking optic... :ph34r:

 

 

:lolol:

 

Honestly though. No optics have been used on my Saiga 12. Just the factory sights.

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Optic? Optic?!

 

I don't need no stinking optic... :ph34r:

 

 

:lolol:

 

Honestly though. No optics have been used on my Saiga 12. Just the factory sights.

 

 

Same here, only thing i have done is added a Dinzag "AK" FSB, for the increased sight radius and adjustability.

 

EDIT; Thats impressive for the short radius bead sight!

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How is that for 100 yards?

 

NICE SHOT! I have been experimenting with slugs trying to see what my beasty likes. I was hitting "Minute of Man" at 50yds with low recoil law enforcement rounds Federal and Remington, the other day, putting them a little right though but still at center of mass. I will have to pick up some sluggers and try'em out! 100yrds is ideal for a slug out of a shotgun, IMHO. :super:

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1) Rifled slugs is just a marketing gimmick. There is no way for grooves on a soft lead projectile to get any sort of grip on a smooth, steel bore (especially a chromed one). Putting rifling grooves on slugs thinking it will increase accuracy is a dumb idea that's been around long enough that most people accept it as something that works. At least it doesn't really hurt anything.

 

2) +1 on the Remington sluggers; they are what I keep in my S-12 when I carry it in the woods up here. I chronoed a box of 3" sluggers a couple months back and they averaged 1588fps out of a 19" S-12.

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Just yesterday I shot a bunch of slugs outta my S12. My S12's reddot is sighted at 50yrds.

I can hit a 1ft round target at 100yrd fairly easy, and yesterday I was shooting over 150yrds hitting a target that was under 2ft round (not that fun with a shotgun!)

The look on peoples faces when they see me regularly hit @ 150+yrds with a shotgun (its kinda funny). People are dumbfounded that a shotgun can be that accurate.

And thats not bench rest shooting either.

 

EDIT: Oh and thats with no choke on my 19" barrel using Remington 1oz slugs

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I've engaged IPSC silhoutte targets at the Pan Am last year at 95 yards standing and had all hits in the "B" zone. I was using Remington 1 ounce Sluggers out of a full-choke, 19 inch barrel with AK-type front sight and fully adjustable rear sight similar to that on a Ruger 10/22.

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Wish I could find someone to make a slug barrel!!!

 

Why? Nobody seems to be able to get the stock barrels out anyway! lol

 

Shouldn't be that hard. I could make and impression of the barrel face and chamber and have my machinest make me a brass pusher block to those dimensions. He also makes barrels.and already told me he would make S12 slug barrels if he could get the rifled blanks. (I may have found a source?) I don't want to pull the barrel on my N.I.B. S12 IZ-109 BHO moldel, I only bought it in case my VER 30 doen't make it.

If I had a pulled S12, I'd already have had it sent off to have a rifled copy made.

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