Slugs only

[CH/QuakerBoyProstaff]

Who here lives in a "shotgun only" area for deer hunting?Do you wish you could use centerfire rifles,or are you content with using slugs/buckshot?

[todd796]

As most of southern Ontario is Shotgun only hunting, and from what I understand alot of the USA is as well, I would love to see Benelli make a lefty Slug gun.
I currently own a SBE II in left hand and wish I could have a rifled barrel for it.
Alas nobody supports the lefties out there.
Maybe we should all get together and call Benelli CS and complain that there are no lefty rifled barrels.
What do you guys think?

[tucker301]

The Browning BPS is ambidextrous (bottom eject, tang safety) and is avaliable in a couple of slug configurations.



LH SBEII shooters can use a smoothbore barrel and a rifled choke tube, or any one of a number of smoothbore slugs.

I shot a smoothbore slug gun for serveral years when a neighboring county had outlawed rifles.
This was in the 80's, and the accuracy was quite good. I took several deer at over 100 yards.

[69beers]

I grew up in a slug only state (Ohio) and still hunt there every year. The southern portion of Ohio is very similar in terrain to where I hunt with a rifle in central Kentucky. I recently read a report, which I can't site, that stated rifle bullets in general don't travel or ricochet much farther than slugs in wooded areas while fired in hunting conditions. If the data in the article is sound then I would like to see at least the southern porting of the state allow rifles.

Todd -- I have an Ithaca 37 smooth bore that is bottom ejection that will clover leaf at 75 yards. I've never shot a deer with it past 30 yards so I comment on long range effectiveness. Great gun!!!

[CH/QuakerBoyProstaff]

I LOVE the Ithaca 37! I have a 12 and a 16 and no matter what fancy gun I buy,those two always get their share of blast time.They are the smoothest,fastest pumps I have ever encountered.There are some deals around on them;if you can find one,and the safety can be switched around in 30 min. to have a lefty special.

[JEFFRO67]

I slug hunt in Illinois then drive a few miles over the state line and rifle hunt in Missouri best of both worlds.

[OldFlick]

[QUOTE=I currently own a SBE II in left hand and wish I could have a rifled barrel for it.[/QUOTE]

You can have a great LH slug barrel, you just have to give up a standard barrel. I have a E R Shaw LH Benelli slug barrel that shoots a sub-3"(5 shot), 100 yd, groups all day. The barrel cost me about $300 w/ matte finish.

I hunt Del. and have a 4,000ft drainage ditch(arrow straight) as a property line, a rifle would make it too easy. I love all deer hunting, just have to travel, and pay, to use a rifle.

[praetorian]

I dont live in a shotgun only area of the contry, but i do like the idea of a shotgun better. Its just more flexiable and also i like the challenge that the slugs ballistics give you.

[acmf74]

I have hunted in Shotgun only counties in the past with great results. The Remington Sabots are devastating!

But for the price of a Benelli SBE rifled barrel you can buy a Remington 870 with a rifled barrel AND a upland barrel.

[dblcluck]

I mainly hunt in an area that has now been allowed to use rifles. You can't beat the accuracy or the energy of a rifle to a shotgun at ranges over 100 yards. My shotgun did good up to about 75 yards, after that it was a guess at best!! So I'm very glad to have picked up a new rifle to use instead of a distance limited weapon with a rainbow trajectory, such as the shotgun.