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Originally Posted by trainline
Right on, Wolfgang. If you spring for a rifled barrel, and a scope, you would be defeating the whole purpose using rifled slugs. The Remington Accutip is indded a good one; I had groups of 4" at 150. Groups were at 3" using Hornaday SST's but won't use them anymore. Everyone in our hunting crew thought they were cats meow at the range but we all had trouble with them splintering on impact with a deer. The extra velocity from the slightly lighter sabot may have something to do with this.
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Well my dad uses an 870 express 12ga with rifled barrel with rifled sights and my sister uses an 870 express 20ga with rifled barrel with rifled sights. Both use Lightfields and they are great slugs when distances top out at 100 yards, but any further and the 12ga gets very recoil heavy and the 20ga, well lightfield only makes one 20ga slug (Lightfield has said they are introducing a 3" 20ga IDS product in Fall of 2010), also when it's a 100 yard slug at the furthest (most are under 50 yards) and my eyesight is good enough to make such a shot I'll stick to the rifle sights. If I ever get a scope Lightfields have no advantage to me as past 125 yards they start doing poorly in terms of drop, especially in 20ga so a flatter shooting sabot slug would be in order, also the Hornady SST has no good reviews down here either, people report it hitting the shoulder and glancing off the bone, pass throughs with little blood trail, and breaking up too soon upon entering a deer and causing the slug to go out the bottom of the deer.
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