Ammunition

[k0ua]

Mossberg Choke Tube Browning Invector Mossberg Accu-Choke Weatherby

This one would work for you, notice if you look careully it says Imp cyl on the rim of the tube. This is what you want for slugs. Improved cylinder. This will give best accuracy. Of course a dedicated slug barell would be better for saboted slugs, but for plain old foster slugs, you want the improved cylinder. Cylinder bore will work fine but will be a bit loose. and modified will work, but there will be some restriction and a little deformation of the slug. I have shot plenty of slugs thru Modified, but if I had a choice, I would choose IC.

 

[paulsharvey]

Mossberg Choke Tube Browning Invector Mossberg Accu-Choke Weatherby

This one would work for you, notice if you look careully it says Imp cyl on the rim of the tube. This is what you want for slugs. Improved cylinder. This will give best accuracy. Of course a dedicated slug barell would be better for saboted slugs, but for plain old foster slugs, you want the improved cylinder. Cylinder bore will work fine but will be a bit loose. and modified will work, but there will be some restriction and a little deformation of the slug. I have shot plenty of slugs thru Modified, but if I had a choice, I would choose IC.

I always thought (and have fired) any normal slug from any standard choke was ok. Now, there are sabot slugs and round ball slugs that are a diffrent story, but a "normal" slug is designed to squeeze down through a Full choke. Might not be ideal for accuracy.

Now, I've read that someone makes a special "FULL TIGHT" turkey choke that is even smaller. I believe they should Not be used with slugs.

Full rifled slug barrels have always been an oddity to me, the barrel costs as much as another shotgun, and no matter what you do to a shotgun, it's still not going to be the long range weapon a true rifle is. I'm not against them, but from a practical point, I think you'd be better off with a rifle caliber. Now, some states force you to do some strange things...

 

[Soundguy]

No don't fire it without the screw in accu choke in place, you could ruin the fine threads.. Take your choke wrench(you do have one right?) and take the choke out and see which choke it is. Cylinder, IC (improved cylinder) Mod. (Modified) Full, or Extra full. From least choke restriction to most choke restriction. I would not shoot slugs past the Modified choke.. I have heard that IC (improved cylinder) is best. Will they go thru a full... yeah, but with a fair amount of deformation. I don't like to do that. If you don't have the right choke, buy the correct one. If you don't have the proper choke wrench, buy one. It may say on the outer edge of the choke without taking it out.

agreed. it will fire a slug with full choke.. but might take the tube with it right out the end of the bbl.

 

[Soundguy]

I always thought (and have fired) any normal slug from any standard choke was ok. Now, there are sabot slugs and round ball slugs that are a diffrent story, but a "normal" slug is designed to squeeze down through a Full choke. Might not be ideal for accuracy.

Now, I've read that someone makes a special "FULL TIGHT" turkey choke that is even smaller. I believe they should Not be used with slugs.

Full rifled slug barrels have always been an oddity to me, the barrel costs as much as another shotgun, and no matter what you do to a shotgun, it's still not going to be the long range weapon a true rifle is. I'm not against them, but from a practical point, I think you'd be better off with a rifle caliber. Now, some states force you to do some strange things...

a full choke bbl, that has no replaceable sleeve will fire them. the replaceable sleeve full choke might be pulled out.

 

[paulsharvey]

a full choke bbl, that has no replaceable sleeve will fire them. the replaceable sleeve full choke might be pulled out.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

 

[Oldpath05]

No don't fire it without the screw in accu choke in place, you could ruin the fine threads.. Take your choke wrench(you do have one right?) and take the choke out and see which choke it is. Cylinder, IC (improved cylinder) Mod. (Modified) Full, or Extra full. From least choke restriction to most choke restriction. I would not shoot slugs past the Modified choke.. I have heard that IC (improved cylinder) is best. Will they go thru a full... yeah, but with a fair amount of deformation. I don't like to do that. If you don't have the right choke, buy the correct one. If you don't have the proper choke wrench, buy one. It may say on the outer edge of the choke without taking it out.

Wasn't sure if anyone here would know about Mossberg pump 20ga. I told my buddy at work today that I had that choke tube out last night, he ask me what the choke tube say on it, What? didn't know there was suppose to be writing on it, come home tonight, took the choke tube out again, put my glasses on and it says (MOD) hum, one piece of puzzle solved. My manual says I'm suppose to have a tube wrench, but don't got one, so the tube is only finger nail night, guess I have to get one of those.

Thanks for the input, everything you said in your post was the exact same thing that guy told me at work, he keeps his guns in pristine condition. Although I might not be that particular, this Mossberg pump 20ga. was a surprise Christmas present from the wife this past year, so I don't want to ruin it.

 

[k0ua]

Wasn't sure if anyone here would know about Mossberg pump 20ga. I told my buddy at work today that I had that choke tube out last night, he ask me what the choke tube say on it, What? didn't know there was suppose to be writing on it, come home tonight, took the choke tube out again, put my glasses on and it says (MOD) hum, one piece of puzzle solved. My manual says I'm suppose to have a tube wrench, but don't got one, so the tube is only finger nail night, guess I have to get one of those.

Thanks for the input, everything you said in your post was the exact same thing that guy told me at work, he keeps his guns in pristine condition. Although I might not be that particular, this Mossberg pump 20ga. was a surprise Christmas present from the wife this past year, so I don't want to ruin it.

You should be OK to blast some slugs thru it with the MOD. choke tube in it. You can make your own choke wrench pretty easy from some thin metal. You might be surprised how accurate and how far you could take a deer with a smoothbore shotgun with slugs.

 

[k0ua]

Or if you like, check out this one

 

[Oldpath05]

Mossberg Choke Tube Browning Invector Mossberg Accu-Choke Weatherby

This one would work for you, notice if you look careully it says Imp cyl on the rim of the tube. This is what you want for slugs. Improved cylinder. This will give best accuracy. Of course a dedicated slug barell would be better for saboted slugs, but for plain old foster slugs, you want the improved cylinder. Cylinder bore will work fine but will be a bit loose. and modified will work, but there will be some restriction and a little deformation of the slug. I have shot plenty of slugs thru Modified, but if I had a choice, I would choose IC.

I'm not sure if I want to shoot slugs or not, at least now I know what to use, I suppose if I didn't have a 30/30 I would use them for deer hunting, but I might get one of IC chokes anyways. Does anyone shoot slugs and at what?

 

[Oldpath05]

Or if you like, check out this one

Yes that is a nice looking shotgun, 12 isn't it? 150 yards that sounds impressive but is that a deer down distance, and the sore arm is the one reason I like 20ga. I can shoot that all day, but I'm thinking my 20ga. with slugs is only good for deer down at about 100ft.