Brenneke slugs in a rifled barrel

Just buy the sabot slugs. I have shot a few rifled slugs out of a rifled barrel. Sometimes it's like it was meant to be. Then one flys off 2 feet away. A good copper sabot for any game or even a BRI if just shooting at deer will be accurate every time.
@CJW: AGREE, and don’t understand why anyone would want to shoot a NON sabot slug down a rifled barrel? (Unless they ‘lost’ all their ammo and a rifled slug was all they had left). If you wanted a very heavy slug - Remington use to make a “Buckhammer” sabot slug that weighed 1 1/4 oz in 12ga and 1550fps. They were about as aero dynamic as a BEER CAN but very accurate (in my Browning Abolt slug gun) and averaged 2” groups @ 100 yrds - matching any other sabot slug brands I tested. I liked them so much, purchased 20 boxes on line in both 20 & 12 ga after they were discontinued a few years ago.
 
My wife has used a Savage 220 bolt action 20 gauge since they were introduced. She killed an Iowa 150” ish deer at 167 yds and many here at home at extended shotgun range. All using the Accutip. Amazing shotgun accuracy
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Ahh the good old days of using shotgun and slugs for deer. I can honestly say I didn't feel handi-capped with them. They killed deer handily. None of my slug guns have seen use since NY allowed rifles. Shotguns with slugs taught me breathing and trigger control with a very healthy dose of recoil tolerance. Back on topic don't use rifled slugs in rifled barrels. It works great until the lead fouling builds up and accuracy goes to hell. Cleaning that lead fouling is not for the faint of heart. Use Sabot slugs in rifled barrels period.
 
Cleaning that lead fouling is not for the faint of heart. Use Sabot slugs in rifled barrels period.
BTDT. I got to the point where I considered just scrapping the barrel and buying a new one. Had strips of lead coming out like ribbons.
 
BTDT. I got to the point where I considered just scrapping the barrel and buying a new one. Had strips of lead coming out like ribbons.
Same.

Wasn’t my barrel, but I was being paid to clean it. What a PITA.
 
BTDT. I got to the point where I considered just scrapping the barrel and buying a new one. Had strips of lead coming out like ribbons.
That must have been a badly fouled barrel. Usually I got globules on my bronze scub material.
 
I’d hate to guess how many hundreds of deer have been shot with H&R rifled barrels shooting Winchester Super X rifled slugs here in Illinois. Lots of people will not pay $15 a box for slugs and just buy the cheap foster type. Rifled barrels or not.
 

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