Pure slug shooting shotgun

[lawdog]

My bro is condering buying a shotgun purely as a slug gun. I told him to look at the Savage 210F or 220F. What do you guys think about a non-multi purpose shotgun to be used only for slug hunting?

[Gordie]

those style of slug guns are a great choice for a gun its like a deer rifle thats all it used for so if you can do it I would do it. maybe next year for me but I would like to build a shotgun just for deer althou they do make some really great ones

[reddog]

Jeff,

I have a Marlin 512 Slugmaster. Its a fully rifled, bolt action, clip fed (3 shot, 1 in chamber, 2 in clip).

I think I paid about $275.00 for it new (no scope, but factory drilled for mounts)

I figured that if I was going to spend $200 for a bbl, and have to monkey around with changing it every year, that it made sense to own a dedicated slug rifle.

I will say that I'm on my 3rd scope for this setup, crashing 2 Nikons. I have a 2.5 X 7 Leupold on now.

The guns are fairly cheap. Put your money in the glass.

You dont need alot of power in the glass, but you do need alot of quality and warrantywith the glass.

[lawdog]

Hey Cuz, thanks for the reply (thanks to you too Elwood).

I have wondered if these guns where you directly mount the scope like a rifle cause that scope problem. My cantilever 870 slug gun has never wrecked a scope and I have had a Nikon Prostaff on it for years. I just wonder if that cantilever mounting doesn't give some shock protection. That's been one of my big concerns with going this way... hmmmm.

[96trigger]

My dad crashed two scopes on his reciever mount. The scopes were not great, but they were made for "shot guns". He has since gotten cantilever mounts and leupold scopes, and hasn't had a problem.

[reddog]

Mine also were "shotgun" scopes.

As heavy as my Marlin is, you would think that it would absorb some of the shock.

[icehousebob]

I have two slug-only guns. One is a 20 ga. smooth bore Savage pump that I modified with a shortened barrel and a scope reciever mounted. The stock is cut down for kids but I made spacers to bring it back to full length. The second is a 12 ga. Ithaca Deerslayer II model of the 87. The barrel is threaded to the reciever instead of takedown, the magazine tube is free floated instead of fastened to the underside of the barrel and it has a reciever mounted scope. I've never seen a slug gun that can outshoot it and you don't want to know what it costs.

As for scopes, I shot the guts out of two old Weavers on another gun years back. 12 gauge, 3inch slugs do have a bit of recoil.

[Gordie]

icehousebob now your talkling what I was thinking for slug guns that sounds awsome one of these days I want to something simalar to one of my 870's