Thread: 12g slugs ??

Originally Posted by Husky1600

Watch TM or the buy/sell section on the forum, they come up occasionally. In the meantime just use your smoothbore barrel, modified choke or less, and use one of the solid rifled slugs that you can buy off the shelf. It will probably surprise you how accurate they are, but they are not as "long" range as the saboted slugs. Also, it does help to use a sight such as a red dot or low power scope. As a trial use bluetack or similar to fashion a makeshift rear sight to work with your front bead and try a box, usually only 5 in a box. I used my shotgun with a standard rib and bead and was plenty happy enough out to 70 metres. As bigfoot said, buckshot inside 40 metres is devastating, but limited to those 40 metres.

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Was thinking about putting a scope on it but would mean i would have to take it off and then re sight it when i go bird or rabbit shooting. never thought about the bluetack thats quite a good idea. i think once i get into the gist of hunting i will just have to suck it up and splash out on a r riffle .

Originally Posted by possummatti

Cheers
Was thinking about putting a scope on it but would mean i would have to take it off and then re sight it when i go bird or rabbit shooting. never thought about the bluetack thats quite a good idea. i think once i get into the gist of hunting i will just have to suck it up and splash out on a r riffle .

Belive me mate, it wont just be ONE rifle either!!!!!!!

My understanding is that it would still be classed as a shot gun if it had a smooth bore regardless of the ammo or sights. Doc premits for the kiamias exclude the the use of shotguns on deer. I think that the main reason was that they were being used to shoot birds. Save some cash and buy a cheap rifle to get going.

Originally Posted by possummatti

Cheers
Was thinking about putting a scope on it but would mean i would have to take it off and then re sight it when i go bird or rabbit shooting. never thought about the bluetack thats quite a good idea. i think once i get into the gist of hunting i will just have to suck it up and splash out on a r riffle .

If you use a pro point or similar scope you can leave it on your shotty...no magnification, both eyes open, dot super-imposed on target...super fast shooting...I have one on a winnie pump.