Hunting With A Shotgun & Slugs?

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Thoughts on using a shotgun and slugs? Thoughts on using a shotgun in general for hunting? Yeah, this link probably won’t work…so feel free to hit up the channel if you wanna see the video drop today.

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All we did as a kid here in Iowa. It was miserable, lots of injured deer, even a good number of people shot every year due to the prevalence of pushing deer. Can you do it right, for sure.

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I use a bolt action Savage 20ga rifled slug gun. Very accurate and devastating!

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Seems to work fine

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Did it from 1980 to about 1995 with lead rifled slugs. Started with an Ithaca Deerslayer that was built to use rifled slugs. In 1988 I got a Paradox rifled barrel and a Rem 11-87. Then I discovered saboted slugs and added a 4X scope. Then, in 2017 or so the state opened up this area for rifle. Not missing slugs at all. The Hornady SST Sabots were grim death out to 150 yards (.45 caliber 300 gr SST bullet in a sabot).

Plain slugs in the right shotgun are DAMN effective out to 100 yards.

If you don’t like a 12 gauge slug try traditional (sightless) stickbows. Makes a slug gun seem MUCH easier. :wink:

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Why wouldn’t it work as long as you know the shotguns and your limitations? Of course it needs sights and to be sighted in. From a bit of range time you’ll figure out what you can do with it. You’ll also see how resistant you are to developing a flinch.

It’s sold now but not long ago I had an 870 that would shoot into 3" @ 75 yds. with Rem Foster slugs. That’s the range I sighted it in for knowing that any shot out to maybe 100 yards was OK. I didn’t need to even sight it in, but I did nontheless since I had the shotgun and wanted to know it’s capability. I always hunted with either a rifle or handgun so didn’t need the capability of a slug.

Would it drop a deer? I read somewhere that shotguns and slugs are used by PHs going after wounded dangerous game in Africa, close range stuff. So I guess you’d be OK to use it for hunting, again within your particular guns, and your, capabilities.

I’m presently trying to develop a mini-slug load for my shotgun and if I thought a .680 7/8 oz slug traveling at (my goal) 1250 fps was something not lethal I never would have begun the project. A factory slug is of larger diameter, heavier weight, and has a higher velocity. That tells me it’s good for hunting, again, within the capabilities of the shooter and slug launcher.

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LonewolfMcQuade, excellent choice! take a look at this 300 yards, 20 gauge :+1:

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They get the job done! I’ve taken them out at 284 + yardsI prefer a centerfire rifle, but have no reservation when hunting in slug country.

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I just watched the video. Virtually no time was spent on the gun itself. It must have had a front sight but I couldn’t see a rear sight. Understand slugs will go bang in any gun that they can be chambered in. But the bang doesn’t do the job, the slug placed correctly does the job. To get accuracy out of slugs and a shotgun that results in a clean kill might require something more than a rudimentary front sight and crossed fingers, especially under field conditions.

I think someone mentioned earlier something about a bow. Yeah, if the sights on that shotgun are what I could see and described, you’re talking about really short ranges to use it ethically on deer and to get a clean and swift kill. I think the game that feeds us is owed that.

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