Firing Slugs through a choke

Slugs are safe thru a choke up to and including a full choke...
Brent
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Thank you for clarifying.

Safe is one thing, accurate is another....try a few and see how they do in YOUR gun - realizing that your gun and my gun and Brent's gun - even if the same - may like different things
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Of course, I just have a couple boxes of slugs laying around, and was wondering if it would be safe to "get rid of them" I don't care how accurate they are, as long as I don't damage the gun in the process.

Ok, one more time. It is perfectly SAFE to shoot using a full choke. What may suffer is accuracy. Some full choked barrels will give you reasonable accuracy while others will give you unacceptable accuracy. The only way to know is to shoot (and do it using a couple of different brands of slugs).
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Again, thanks for clarifying, any real reason for the differences in accuracy on full choke guns?
 
Again, thanks for clarifying, any real reason for the differences in accuracy on full choke guns?
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I'm guessing its pure physics. There is no such thing as a perfectly concentric choke (i.e. they are not perfectly round nor perfectly centered in the barrel). The tighter the choke, the more the slug is squeezed as it passes through and the more that slight offset would get to act on the slug. But, then again my college science classes were a LONG time ago so there may be other reasons.
 
Yes... same deal with fixed chokes... One thing that will affect the accuracy of identical slugs out of various constrictions is simple pressure variation.
Brent
 
Actually, fixed chokes are quite notorious for being manufactured "off center". Shotgun barrels are also sometimes less than perfectly straight. If I recall, Larry Potterfield even made a video segment on how a gunsmith can true one up. The average shot-shell shooter never even notices the difference. The competitive target shooters do however and they pattern their guns to know how bad the offset is. When the offset is bad enough, the gun goes to the smith for correction.
 
Doyle - those comments would depend on the gun in question - probably true for your mass-produced $200 ones....but those folks who buy upper end guns pay for those barrels to be perfectly concentric and the chokes just right. Some of the best patterns I have ever shot and witnessed were with higher end guns with fixed chokes. IME, it has been the other way around - the changeable chokes have had issues of being off center, one barrel a thou or two off and the choke not compensated, etc.........
 
Oneounceload, I'm sure you are right about the high-end guns being bored more true to start with. I tend to be in the "constantly broke" category so I'm a little out of it when you go talking about really good stuff.

On the other hand, I doubt if the owners of those high-end guns are going to be throwing slugs through them.
 
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