who has used slug loaded shotguns for deer and what's your accuracy?

Question

Can you get to 100yds with it or more and make an effective kill

Answer 1

Most will shoot accurate to 100 yards. I have taken many deer with a shotgun at the 80-100 yards away. A rifled barrel with a saboted round will make a 150 yard shot possible with not problems for a good shooter.

Answer 2

My little Rossi 20 ga. has shown incredible accuracy and impact at 100 yrds using Federal 3" rifled slugs. Being a smooth bore with a relatively short barrel, I was pleasantly surprised with a 4" group without benefit of rear sight or scope. I've never used it for deer hunting, but am very confident it would be more than sufficient.

Answer 3

I took a doe last year, at 90 yards. I used an old (at least 30 yrs) Winchester model 12 (non-rifled barrel) 12 GA and a Federal Premium slug, designed for whitetail. I sighted my gun at 70 yards, so I aimed three inches high. The slug struck her right where I had placed the crosshairs, no drop. Took her straight off her feet, she didn't move an inch.

Answer 4

Slug shotguns and slug ammunition have changed dramatically in the past few years. When I first began hunting white-tailed deer with 12-gauge shotgun slugs over 30 years ago, the best - in fact, the only - choice was a Foster-type "rifled" slug in a smoothbore Improved Cylinder barrel with open-notch sights. Fifty yards was a sensible shot. If you tried to push it much past 70 yards, you'd be just as well off throwing rocks.

Today there are a wide variety of new slug designs, bunches of new guns and new barrel designs in which to shoot them, and in many deer-hunting areas you are as likely to see a whitetail hunter carrying a factory-made synthetic-stock bolt-action slug gun with a high-magnification variable scope sight as you are to see a hunter armed with a traditional open-sight lever-action .30-30 deer rifle.

The best of today's slugs and slug guns can deliver accuracy as good out to 100 yards, 150 yards and even beyond, as can many ordinary production-grade rifles. And when you turn to the question of projectile energy, just note this: The retained energy of one of Remington's current Premier Copper Solid 1-ounce sabot slugs at 100 yards is 1,364 ft/lbs. The retained energy of a traditional lever-action's 170-grain soft-nose .30-30 bullet at the same distance is actually 9 ft/lbs less.

Answer 5

I have a Mossberg 590 with ghost ring sights and that shoots slugs into about 4" at 50 yards.

Answer 6

i can get 5" patterns at 100 yds with regular iron sights and an ic tube with federal rifled slugs.

Answer 7

100 yrds with a shotgun is way to far.slugs should be 50yrds or less and less than 20 for an accurate shot.