Improved cylinder barrel question

[zzzarkt]

Just wanting to make sure, will I have any problems (damage to the gun / barrel) shooting rifled slugs through an improved cylinder smooth bore barrel?

Thanks.

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Originally posted by zzzarkt
Just wanting to make sure, will I have any problems (damage to the gun / barrel) shooting rifled slugs through an improved cylinder smooth bore barrel?

Thanks.

Nope. It'd be fine. My Remingtons both have improved cylinder barrels and have many rifled slugs through them.

[alwaysshootin]

Improved cylinder, may just be the best choice for the Foster style slugs, and has been the choice of choke for many, many, years! So let them rip, but don't expect great groupings beyond about 50 yards. Thats not because of the barrel either, it's just the combo of smoothbore, and foster slugs. It takes a rifled barrel, and a sabot, to achieve greater distances, with tighter groups.

[MrMurphy]

It's more load selection, and sights.

My Benelli Nova SP, out of the box with ghost ring sights, using Remington Slugger (either full power or reduced) loads, shot from the prone position, would put five out of five in the head of a Texas DPS silhouette at 100 yards. And this is with a long heavy trigger.

The first time I did that i was aiming at the head figuring it would drop the slug into the chest. To my surprise after two shots, I had two headshots. Another 3 proved it was no accident, my gun was sighted for POA/POI with slugs at 100m.

I won quite a bit of money from disbelieving souls at the range who didn't think a shotgun, with an IC smooth barrel could hit that far.

[Apocalypse_Now]

Ditto.. my handloaded .662 roundball slugs (musketball mold) group well at 100 yards.. the AA Winchester shotcup acts like a sabot. 6 to 8 inches from a cylinder bore and iron sights

[zzzarkt]

Thanks folks!!

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