Thread: Rifled chokes

there are some folks who put a big plug of silicon up the arse of those slugs.
Lots of info on the castboolits thread about slug loads.
the lee slug is like a giant oversized slug pellet so ANY spin will be better than none.

Hi all what i asked earlier was if you shot true bore [like a rifle ] and not use a plastic cup between shot and bore [shotgun usual ]
12 g barrel id [no restric. choke ] is .729 - .730 and rifled bore is .7205 - .730 bore and grove @ .731
if a cup is used to hold lead ball / pointy like projectile then rifled insert @ muzzle would just as likely just strip the cup off the load and not induce much spin on
projectile .However if a lead ball or shaped projectile coated with a powder coat or Lee Alox and cast to the size of .730 should just act like a regular bullet out of a reg. rifle barrel . my2c

The big hollow base actually produces a degree of stability due to aerodynamic drag. Air in the base is at a lower pressure than that flowing over the slug which tends to hold it straight, or at least a bit wobbly, ad a tiny bit of if spin and it's even better

I had a Lee mould I machined out to bore dia, first problem was it ended up nearly as wide as it was long, like a flat wadcutter, I can't imagine it would give good results,
I have a fully rifled barrel for a rem 870

Hi Skeetshooter
did you ever tried any of those " flat wadcutters " via your f/ rifled barrel ? cheers

No I didn't shoot them, I couldn't see how they could possibly work, they looked quite weird

I've still got the mould somewhere

Lee Keydrive slugs have worked well for me

I had a fabarm sp12 a few years ago I got a rifled choke for it it shot factory seller and ballot slugs to about 4" at 50m not sure if that is good or bad but was consistent. After an outing the choke was a bitch to get out. It seemed to get tighter and tighter, also it seems to foul badly with lead. Now I use an M2 with a fully rifled barrel and sabots.

Try the Lyman 12g slug is extremely accurate in most shotguns I have
Tried it in

Have you tried it thru rifled barrel?, what wad do you use in a rifled barrel? It would be good to reload some to try as factory stuff is quite expensive.