slug advise

[uffdapete]

Try a few rounds of several different brands and see what shoots best. Put the price of ammo in perspective. If your barrel shoots best with 50 cent shells, shoot em. If it likes $3 shells shoot em. Think about what you invest in the rest of the hunt like food, gear, gun, maybe lodging, anticipating a few days of the year you can hunt, and $3 shells are well worth it imo if that gives you the best chance of a clean kill. I hunted with slugs and sabots for 30 years and my last gun was a Mossberg 20 ga rifled barrel with a cantilever scope mount that like Remington Copper Solids. Once the gun was sighted in I shot 1 or 2 shells a year hunting and the remainder of the box before the next season to make sure everything was a go.

[MJ1657]

A couple of notes on this thread. Federal is not making the Barnes Expanders any more because Barnes was bought out. So the Trophy Copper replaced it and it looks like it will behave almost exactly like the Expanders.

I have been shooting the Expanders for 16 years and I have shot a lot of deer with them. 3 others in my group have the same Hastings Barrel with a cantilever scope mount. We all shoot about 2-3" groups at 100 yards.

The Hastings barrel come with a warning not to shoot Remington Solid Copper slugs out of them.

The other difference between Fosters and Sabots at distance is the energy. At around 100 yards the Fosters kind of [PoorWordUsage] out. Due to the difference in speed (MV of 1900 fps for Federal Barnes Expanders vs most Fosters in the 1400 fps range), there is a huge difference in energy (remember the V is squared in the energy equation).

Do you know why they don't want you to shoot the Remington copper solids in that barrel?

[harvey lee]

Yes, my Hasting barrel says no Rem solid copper slugs, I would guess that they would damage the rifling.

[mntatonka]

Yes, my Hasting barrel says no Rem solid copper slugs, I would guess that they would damage the rifling.

I assume Remington solid copper slugs still have a sabot sleeve on them, in which case they'd be no different than any other sabot slug. No likely to damage the rifling in a hardened steel barrel. I could see it having something to do with the way the casings are made, and having a tendency to jam or something, but I don't see any sabot rounds damaging the rifling.

[harvey lee]

Your guess is as good as mine. I have never shot them in my barrel as they say do not.

I guess the easy answer is, to call them. Either way, one should not use them in the Hastings barrel.

[96trigger]

Wish we could still call them....

[GSP4EVER]

Ive tried various brands in my Mossberg 500 rifled barrel. For me the Hornady SST did not work so well. I used both rifled slugs and sabot in my rifled barrel and niether type was better than the other. For the rifled slugs I use the Brenneke. I shot an 8 point with this a couple of years ago. My sabot of choice is the Federal Fusion (got a doe last year). I only use 2 3/4" rounds. I only shoot open sights so I keep my distance to less than 100 yards. The 8 point was shot around 50-60 yards and the doe was closer.

[Whoaru99]

Yes, my Hasting barrel says no Rem solid copper slugs, I would guess that they would damage the rifling.