Scope for a slug gun

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bamafan4life

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Okay i have a sears 200 that im going to drill and tap for a scope. it has a 20' smooth bore and im going to use it for slugs. and going to have quick detachable rings so it can quickly be used for defence with buckshot, well this is also a gun i wont to do cheap. I got it from a 90 year old woman for $20 and after buying a magazine tube extension and safety button (was the only part of gun missing.) im up to 70$ well a scope mounts ganna run me $10. now i have a bunch of extra rifle scopes but no shotgun scopes. nor have i had experance with shotgun scopes. will the 3'' eye relief of a rifle scope be okay for a 12 gauge 2 3/4 rifled slug?
 
If you are talking a smooth bore shooting foster slugs, I think I would like a nice set of rifle type iron sights would be the best. A "turkey gun."

A scope would be ok if you had a lower power, like a 3X, and a very long eye relief. A Nikon Omega is a good one.

But foster slugs aren't always the most accurate things, so personally I wouldn't spend the money on a decent scope that would last with all the heavy recoil.

You also would not want your scope to detached all the time, you would have to re-zero it when you do. Iron sights your wouldn't need to worry about that.
 
For way less than $100 you can get any number of the Red Dot type sighting devices. For the 50 yard and less applications of a slug gun they are the ticket.

Not a bad idea to examin the already suggested idea of iron sights. Ghost Rings work good too.......
 
I agree with the above posters that you aren't going to get much benefit using a scope with foster slugs in a smoothbore barrel. Unless of course it's just an eyesight issue and it may help some. I know from personal experience that every year whoever is in charge of measurements and standards keeps tweaking 100 yds a little bit to make it longer :o. At least it looks that way to me........

If you are set on a scope though, a relatively inexpensive option is Nikon's Prostaff 2-7x32 shotgun scope. It runs right around or just north of $100.00.
 
We do alot with scoops on shotguns. For what you are doing you need a shotgun scoop. Most rifle scopes you will need one with a AO to set the parallax on it. You may not have the time to set it if you are hunting. The shotgun scope will not have to have a AO on it. Another thing is the recoil of the shotgun will work on Scopes.A shotgun scope is made to take the recoil. The low end rifle scopes will bust. You will need a good one to take the recoil of the shoot gun.
 
How do you install open sights? ive drilled and taped many guns for scopes but never iron sights. id be all for iron sights. and i just need a way of aiming the gun! i was planning on sumthing like a 1.5-3x scope.
 
Remington's rifle sight barrels have their sight bases silver soldered in place. I would think you could have a set of sights installed on your barrel that way. You'd also be looking at a refinish on the barrel though as the finish will be ruined by the installation.

No idea how much $ you are looking at to do this.

Does your barrel have a front bead? Does it have a vent rib?

Reason I ask is with some practice you can place slugs pretty well just using the bead alone out to 50-60 yds or so.

If you have a vent rib on your barrel there are several aftermarket sight options that clamp to a vent rib. They are mostly marketed to turkey hunters but they would be a quick and dirty inexpensive option for you as well. Without a vent rib barrel these won't work though.
 
I have never seen where a scope makes you shoot WORSE. Most all my guns have scopes on them including my slug guns. Gettin' older and the eyes are no longer equal to a Hawk.
You do have to hold the gun tight to your shoulder to keep from getting a slam in the eyebrow, but it is certainly doable especially with a low power scope that tend to have longer eye releif.
 
Your Sears 200 MAYBE a..

Winchester 1200. If so then, B-square makes a side-saddle mount.
A good scope would be 1.5 to 4x or variable.
I have used an original Weaver K1.5 for all my deer hunting, really need nothing more.
Given as a base to start from.

Suggest using the Brenneke slugs as they gave best accuracy and range over the Forster type.
 
Pay attention to what JrothWA says. If I recall corretly Winchester 1200's have a receiver that doesn't drill and tap easily. That is why the side-saddle mounts were made.
 
You can drill and tap them. We do it all the time. The big thing is to get a good mount and take your time. Then put some type of glue under it. I use JB weld and it will stay. We pump 75 to 100 round out our guns at a shoot. Check out our Web I think I have pic of one on it.
 
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To get some iron sights you can get them that attach to the vent rib.

I know trueglo makes them, I would imagine another company or two would also. I don't know what a Sears 200 looks like, but I would assume it has a vent rib and at least a front bead.

You can get TruGlo sights almost anywhere, and they have a plate that screws down and "pinches" over the vent rib.

If you want the BEST option available for hunting, forget scopes and get an EOtech or ACOG attached to it. That is not considering price, although the EoTech is only about $350.
 
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