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hehz0r

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I shot some slugs for the first time yesterday. A pack each of Brenneke KO.., Remington Slugger, Winchester Powerpoint, Federal Powershock, and a 10 round box of Remington Peters.

Ouch. I didn't think that slugs would kick so much. My A-5 is one of the softest shooting guns around with shot loads, but with slugs it is a beast. Those Winchesters were especially painful, and they also gave this grand muzzle-flash!

Out of curiosity, do buckshot loads kick as hard as slugs? What about 20 gauge slugs and buckshot? Is there a noticeable difference in recoil?
 
An ounce of lead is an ounce of lead

It doesn't matter if it's a slug, or buckshot, or birdshot. They'll all recoil the same.
 
kick is going to be the same if the weight of the shot is the same at the same FPS.

1oz bird shot at 1290FPS = 1oz slug at 1290FPS
 
God I love shooting slugs did some yesterday then did some in 3 inch slugs man that was awesome shot so many my wallet is empty and I got a huge bruise on my shoulder and am very content :cool: I guess I have a high tolerance for pain. I love my shotgun!!!!! oh you should try putting sluggers through a rifled barrel you can hear them s.o.b.'s zoom down range.
 
What I really want to know is if a buckshot loading is closer to birdshot or a slug in terms of kick, seeing as I can't find how much the average buckshot load weighs.
 
A 9 pellet load of 00 weighs 1 1/8 oz. IOW, each 00 pellet weighs 1/8 oz. Exterpolate from there.

Slugs SEEM to kick more because one is not shooting them at a moving target at the range. In the field at deer, I've never felt any kick.
 
Thank you very much. A nine pellet OO buck load at 1325 shouldn't be too bad then. I ran some numbers through a recoil calculator, and the Winchester slug's recoil levels were near a .338 Win Magnum! After shooting a string of five slugs, I would switch to my .22 to allow my shoulder to cool off, and I would flinch severely for the first shot!
 
The felt recoil in my Benelli Super Nova with the 18.5" barrel is not nearly as preceptible is it is in my Mossberg 500 with the old Smooth bore slug barrel. But the recoil pad on the Mossberg is very old and somewhat petrified and the Mossy is not as heavy as the Super Nova.

Now if you want a sore brusied shoulder shoot some 7.62 x 54R rounds in a Mosin-Nagant M44 carbine. Two foot of flame out the barrel and the steel buttplate comes straight back with very little muzzle flip. Sweet. :cool:
 
A-5+winchester super-x rifled sludgs all the way!

You don't need power points.The old red winchester rifled slugs fire sweet out of the A-5.I treid them all.Groups are what talks.Try them!Recoil is the same frome slugs to buckshot.
 
So far recently the only slugs I have had any erratic behaviour with are the Green Remmington sluggers. They pattern all over the target. Everything else has been very accurate.
 
There isn't anyway to say which slugs will shoot best from your barrel until you try a bunch of different brands through it. Try patterning it with a tube of each of the brands available in your area. Use a different target with each brand. It will become apparent which one(s) works the best. All shotty barrels are different, two of the same brand with an identical configuration, may shoot the same brand loads quite differently.
If you have multiple barrels for the same receiver, then you will have to pattern each barrel to find if there are preferences. The same thing applies to shot as well as slugs.
Knoxx makes recoil reduction stocks which reduce the recoil of shot/slugs to insignificant levels.
 
That is because as they came from the factory they were supplied with narrow plastic buttplates. This combined with the fact that many people do not adjust the recoil setting on the gun can make them a bear to shoot. With a good pad and the right brake setting they are quite comfortable. I would say my 20 gauge 870 has more felt recoil than my A-5 (although this is due at least in part to stock fit).
 
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