Recommendations for Rifled Slugs?

[GlockPower]

For defensive purposes...if there are pictures of any "exotic" rifled slugs...

I've seen standard ones from Federal Classic, for example, but what about the saboted slugs that are really interesting, such as full copper, serious hollow points...

 

[Fred Hansen]

For defensive purposes

Punch a 3/4 inch hole in an attacker, and they stop the attack because they have a 3/4 inch hole in them. Not because the slug was saboted or shiny.

Any name brand slug will work for home defense. Whatever one can shoot most accurately would probably be the most sensible choice. For hunting I prefer Brenneke slugs. They lack anything approaching glamour, but over the years I've killed a couple dozen deer with them quite quickly without a single failure. The lead alloy that they are made from seems to be harder than most other brands. They don't deform as much.

 

[Dave McC]

GP, there's no ineffective 12 ghauge slugs. At typical HD ranges, the load could be a 1 1/4 oz Brenneke or 1/2 oz of 9 shot, a 410 skeet load. Wound and effect will be indistinguishable from each other. A shotgun dumps an incredible amount of energy into a target.

The FBI database had a 99% one stop probability for shotguns, regardless of load, gauge or choke.

Better to just buy a mess of 5 packs, bench to find the most accurate one in YOUR shotgun of choicem and go with that.

 

[dick w. holliday]

Funny you should ask--i just put a scope mount on my old Rem 1100 and went to the range today with some slugs to see which worked the best....First i tried the Federal Sabots since they cost the most.....at 50 yards they shot a group about one foot wide across the middle of my target......other slugs consisted of some of the old timey Winchester and Federal.....beleive it or not the old rifled slugs shot about 3" groups in my smooth barrel deer barrel at 50 yds....Dick

 

[Dave McC]

Dick, that's the way it goes. It's well nigh impossible to predict the performance of a given slug in any shotgun. Yours is certainly good enough.

Sabots hardly ever do well in smoothbore bbls.

 

[Bruce626]

serious hollow points...

Somehow, having a plain ole slug, i.e., a 75 caliber projectile, otherwise known as a "BFB", to stop a fight with seems "exotic" enough for me, but perhaps there are other criteria?

--Bruce.