Thread: Double shotgun shooting slugs

Okay, so I have this old Rossi SXS shotgun, and I have tried shooting a couple of slugs out of it, you know, obviously because I am going to shoot a deer or a pig with it, if it all works. I cant have a semi auto anymore, and two quick shots migtht be useful. Never got more than that bush hunting anyway.

With no sights just holding cheek low on the stock as it will go, and using the bead as a sighter, I put two shots from the right barrel within two inches of each other at 50 metres. I was quite surprised.

With the left barrel it shoots about a 12 inches lower than that at 50 m, but in line. I am not worried about this not regulating together closer, because it only cost me a song and because I can use the right barrel and then just aim off for the left one if I need it, (or load it with buckshot?)

All I need to do is solder a little front sight with a bead onto the rib, and then solder a little low blade of metal at the back and then file it down until the elevation is right. I dont care about a V or a notch, because I can shoot a bead front sight very accurately by just putting on top of the straight rear sight in the middle (the eye will judge it like it does with an aperture sight) I have done this on rifles before.

Or - I could leave the bead it already has and just file a little notch into the rib itself at the back...



Anyone done this before for deer? What about putting sights on one? Will doing some soldering with torch melt the solder holding the rib on?

Or is this all an interesting waste of time.


(I asked an American friend about doing this once with a shotgun, and he said why bother, you have a clutch of expensive rifles, and every person in the US who lives in a shotgun-only deer hunting state, all wish they could use a rifle. This is valid, perhaps even wise advice. But I have never been swayed by wise advice before, I am not sure I should start now, and I generally ignore advice that does not agree with my own opinion. Hence I am still doing it, because I have no interest in shooting ducks but I do have this throwaway shotgun.)