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Posted: 2/6/2012 4:42:14 PM EDT
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Do any of you have experience with rifled choke tubes? Thoughts?
Will these allow you to shoot saboted slugs from a smoothbore barrel with a least some level of accuracy? |
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Mixed results....the Win-Choke and Browning extended rifled choke tubes I shot were very, very accurate....more accurate than the fully rifled variants of the same gun when shot side by side. The flush fitting rifled Rem Choke was pretty ineffective. I was shooting BRI type sabots. I never tried any of the new breed of wonder slug through them. |
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Had one in my 1100 (son now has it). Shot my cast Lyman sabot slugs into <3" @ 100yds. With the ImpCyl choke, groups would go to 8-12". And it shot birdshot plenty good enough for 3-gun.
I now have a Browning A5, but nobody makes a rifled thinwall choke (its a 1951 vintage gun) and the later invector barrels may or may not fit in the older guns (epensive experiment....and I only paid $300 for the A5 to start with). So, I guess the son that got my 1100 will now get a case+ of my handloaded low recoil slugs. |
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As stated the flush Remington rifled tube offers no appreciable difference from a standard smooth bore at all.
The extended Remington rifled tube worked very well with Remington buckhammers. But Buckhammers have been discontinued buy Remington. Winchester offers the Rackmaster that is similar to the Buckhammers. Bad move by Remington. I bought a case of 12 and 20 Buckhammers to stock up. |
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