So, I have a friend that wants to go deer hunting with me. Cool. I haven't hunted in a few years, and I'm ready to hit the woods again. Problem is, I sold my Tikka a year or so back because I hadn't been hunting, leaving my long gun options 12ga or .223. Great excuse to buy a rifle, but with christmas around the corner and all the travel that entails, I'm not going to convince my better half to let me pick up a new rifle and scope. Since my shots will be pretty short anyway, and I don't want to use the .223 on deer, I feel the shotgun is the way to go.
Now, since my shotgun has a 20" cylinder bore barrel, what kind of accuracy can I expect using rifled slugs? I'm going to add either a red dot or low power scope to it and hit the range sometime this week to see what I can get out of the old girl, but figured I would pose the question first.
While buying a new rifle is out of the question, I can probably swing buying another barrel for the shotgun. What type/length barrel should I be looking for, and why?
Now, since my shotgun has a 20" cylinder bore barrel, what kind of accuracy can I expect using rifled slugs? I'm going to add either a red dot or low power scope to it and hit the range sometime this week to see what I can get out of the old girl, but figured I would pose the question first.
While buying a new rifle is out of the question, I can probably swing buying another barrel for the shotgun. What type/length barrel should I be looking for, and why?
Each shot is a friggin roller coaster thrillride all on it's own! They have monster kick, but it is a slower push, rather than a sharp punch, so it's not that bad. Only downside I found was that if I didn't cycle the shotgun at full speed, they wouldn't eject, but that was more due to me being in awe at the awesomeness of the rounds.