What slugs are best for smooth bore?

Designed for smooth-bore barrels, Hornady® American Whitetail® Rifled Slugs are loaded with a 1-ounce foster style slug. The hollow point style slug features a tough, lead alloy core loaded to 1,600 feet per second. The compression style wad protects the slug at ignition and helps to seal the bore for maximum velocity.

What is the most accurate slug?

Here are the best options we found — a “top 10” list of today’s best slug guns.

• 1: Savage 212 and 220.
• 2: Winchester SX3 Cantilever Buck.
• 3: Remington 870 SPS ShurShot Synthetic Super Slug.
• 4: Browning A-Bolt Shotgun.
• 5: Benelli SBE II Slug Gun.
• 6: Weatherby PA-08 08 Slug Gun Combo.
• 7: Mossberg 500 FLEX Slugster.

Are sabot slugs better than rifled slugs?

Accuracy – while the rifled slugs (Foster & Brenneke) are accurate for their design, sabot slugs win this comparison hands down. Because of their design with the plastic cylinder, the barrel rifling creates a much more stable trajectory that increases the accuracy and effective distance.

What is a foster shotgun slug?

A Foster slug, invented by Karl M. Foster in 1931, and patented in 1947 (U.S. Patent 2,414,863) is a type of shotgun slug designed to be fired through a smoothbore shotgun barrel. It was designed to enable deer hunting in the Great Depression using smoothbore, choked shotguns.

What is a 12 gauge slug?

12 Gauge Slug. A 12 Gauge Slug is a solid projectile designed for use with a shotgun. It was originally designed for hunting big game, and was observed to be more effective at range than buckshot.

What are rifled slugs?

Definition of rifled slug. : a shotgun projectile having a round nose, a hollow base, and sides cut with a series of oblique grooves that increase the accuracy of the projectile by causing it to rotate as it passes through the smooth bore of the shotgun.