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Posted: 08 Aug 2008 5:21 PM
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i have a remington 870 with a hastings fully rifled barrel and not sure on what slugs to use or try?any ideas? please. i also use a scope.

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 5:34 PM
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try sabots

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 5:41 PM
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2 3/4 federal with barnes expander

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 5:42 PM
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Posted: 08 Aug 2008 5:42 PM
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I use copper solids they work and shoot great. try a few different slugs, some of the cheaper slugs shoot out of my gun just as accurate as big dollar sabots. I have mossberg 835 with a fully rifled barrel. if not sighted in yet get it bore sighted first, I didn't and I burnt up a lot of money sighting in my gun the first time. __________________ "The outdoors was a school that all native sons attanded" Merce Ridgway #1 BASS PRO SHOP

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 5:51 PM
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Wichester Superx 2 3/4 inch 1 oz slugs awesome out of a Mossberg 500 rully rifled barrel with a Redfield Widefield 4x scope. Great set up and very affordable way to hunt many types of game. I bought the Mossberg at Kmart in 1990. It was on sale for 189 dollars with three chokes I then bought a fully rifled barrel for it for like 140 bucks and a Redfield widefield scope for 160. WIth this set up I can hunt just about anything. __________________ EAT SLEEP HUNT Make your dreams a reality. Take a kid hunting. Film your next hunt. www.nloutdoors.com

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 6:03 PM
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My only Rifled Hastings barrel is 20 ga, and 7/8 oz Lightfield Hybrid sabots are (were) the most accurate out of it. Good luck. __________________ We, The People, are all first responders. We are also the first victims. Demand reasonable CCW laws from Trenton.

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 6:05 PM
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i've been using lightfield hybrid slugs for about 20 years now. they're very accurate out of any gun i've ever shot them out of and in my opinion they're the quickest killing slug made. i've shot literally dozens of deer with them and only had a couple that didn't drop within a couple of yards and those dropped no more than about 30 or 40 yards, no bs. very few passthroughs too which means all energy is used up inside the deer. i buy them by the case which lasts awhile. sight them in to hit 2 inches high at 50 yds and you'll be good to go out to about 125 yds. about 15 years ago i was on a bow hunt in new brunswick for black bear when a limb on my hoyt prohunter delaminated (end of bowhunt). i continued to hunt with my slug gun using lightfields and i shot a 300 lb bear at a distance of 40 yds. you know how far it ran after the shot? it didn't, it just flopped right over and kick a couple of times. very clean and humane.

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 6:15 PM
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winchester superx this year i may try ligthfields heard they were pretty good

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 6:39 PM
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copper solids here. shoot just fine out of my 870

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 7:11 PM
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i would like to thank all of you for your help?one more thing how many shots of the same type should i shoot threw 5,10 etc?

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 8:06 PM
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I agree with muzzyman on the Lightfield Hybrids.

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 8:13 PM
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Posted: 08 Aug 2008 8:18 PM
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light fields __________________ ubnj member

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 9:29 PM
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My 870 shot just about any slug I put in it.. I use winchester platinum 2 3/4" 400 gr __________________ I just want to Hunt...

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 9:32 PM
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Quote: Lightfield Hybrid sabots are (were) the most accurate out of it.

Posted: 08 Aug 2008 10:08 PM
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i gotta agree on the lightfields

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Lightfields or Hastings. __________________ "Rednecks, white socks and Blue Ribbon Beer." "Victory in Iraq is finally in sight; he (Obama)wants to forfeit. Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America; he's worried that someone won't read them their rights." Sarah Palin

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I am a Winchester Partition Gold Slug fan....Accurate and very hard hitting!

Posted: 09 Aug 2008 4:01 AM Last Edited By: Blackduck1
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Quote: i would like to thank all of you for your help?one more thing how many shots of the same type should i shoot threw 5,10 etc? Since they come in boxes of 5, 5 is minimum. However, I like to verify a good group. So, I would shoot the box of 5, and check for a good group for the distance you are sighting in for. If it groups well, shoot another box of 5. Make good notes on your target ... label the load, mark the two groups, how did the recoil feel?, etc etc. If that first box of 5 does not group well, do not shoot the second box of that slug, and move on to a different slug and a new target paper. Take your time. Do it over time. Don't kill yourself. Even though you feel you can take the recoil, slugs are heavy loads and you may not even realize that you're starting to flinch a bit. Just my 2 cents. Good luck. __________________ We, The People, are all first responders. We are also the first victims. Demand reasonable CCW laws from Trenton.

Posted: 09 Aug 2008 5:45 AM
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Posted: 09 Aug 2008 5:47 AM
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Posted: 09 Aug 2008 5:53 AM
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Quote: 2 3/4 federal with barnes expander If they shoot out of it, my friend had a problem getting anything to shoot good out of his hastings barrel. Barnes bullets are AWESOME! __________________ "from my cold dead hands" "to all those in harms way, SEMPER FI"

Posted: 09 Aug 2008 7:33 AM
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Quote: If they shoot out of it, my friend had a problem getting anything to shoot good out of his hastings barrel. My Hastings doesn't shoot the lighter, faster sabots at all. I did best with Brenneke K.O. and the slugs made by Hastings. Lightfields and Buckhammers were a close second. __________________ The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill

Posted: 09 Aug 2008 7:42 AM
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coppersolid or lightfield

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Posted: 10 Aug 2008 1:56 PM
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lightfield all the way. And I agree with the pass through I had several cooper slugs just punch holes in deer.. BArnes expander never did expand just punched hole. same size entry and exit wound.. deer ran far never had one run out of sight with a lightfield..

Posted: 10 Aug 2008 2:38 PM
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lightfields hybreds __________________ if geranimo was shooting a cardiac we all be speaking apache. sometimes i think deer just parachute out of the sky

Posted: 10 Aug 2008 5:57 PM
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Lightfields... devasting. __________________ The bowman, to be successful as a hunter, must learn to perfection the habits of his game. AntiCrossbow Pro Staffer

Posted: 15 Aug 2008 6:15 AM
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Barnes expanders are great to use. Note a few years back Hastings but out a bulletin that they were having some problems with Remington Copper solids shot out of their barrels. They didn't want anyone shooting Rem. Copper Sol. shot from their barrels because of potential injuries or damage to the barrel.