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    Rifled chokes

    Has anyone here fiddled around with rifled chokes and slugs? What results or trends are you seeing? Got a Sulun 14" with a rifled choke and slug suppressor (custom) and it doesnt seem to like sabots (thankfully) but conventional slugs it seems to like to an extent. Thinking about swapping to a IM choke so i can run buck as well.

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    I've often wondered if those chokes work?
    You have an ounce of lead travelling down the barrel at 1300 fps and it encounters shallow rifling for the last 2 inches?
    Can it take the spin in those circumstances?

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    In the century before last English gun makers produced paradox guns basically a shotgun with the last 4 or so inches rifled with a slow twist. It significantly improved the accuracy of slugs and the conical bullets designed for them and still gave acceptable patterns with shot at close ranges.
    So it's not a new idea. I wonder if interchangeable ones wouldn't either unscrew or tighten up excessively.
    In my experience buck shot and bbs pattern best with a cylinder bore, tighter chokes seem to spread the pattern for some reason I can't figure out
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    Hi in the air gun world " F X " company do have some of their barrels done this way [smooth then a twist @ the end ]
    they are rated rather highly ..
    So when you reload do you still want to use the cup//wad and shoot under sized lead or go full bore with your projectile size
    What brand of supp. are you using . I have a couple of different brands and do shoot solids via them ,but i tend to use subsonic loads because of the noise of the H Vel. One barrel is even ported to slow regular ammo down Cheers

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    Just save your time and money and buy this ready to shoot Paradox rifle in stock in NZ.
    I can go look at it for you if needed ?

    https://collectorweapons.co.nz/Produ...-e5a73fa3a1b6/
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    I use a Remington 1187 with scope & rifled choke in a slug barrel, I shoot 1oz Lee Keydrives ...... explodes a rabbit at 50-60m. Am looking forward to trying it on a few pigs
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    I have rifled choke in 18 inch barrel with sights on Remington 11~87 works great to 100 yards
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    @Bob Da Browning. What 12 ga cartridge structure have you developed for such good accuracy with Lee slugs?

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    My question still stands, if your slug is in a plastic wad are we saying underr those circumstances the plastic wad takes the spin?
    I'd like to see it provern

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    Win aa hulls, white win aa 1& 1/8 wad with 20g felt base cut in half under the slug & petals trimmed back to shoulder of slug 8 crimp & 22grains as50n powder, win 209 primer. We blow up 2lt milk bottles filled with water & formula tins filled with water & lids jammed back on for reactive targets & giggles

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    I didnt find the slugs as accurate with the skeet choke & imp cyl choke but minute of rabbit & possum has been good so far, am looking forward to pugs in the next few weeks

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    @Bob Da Browning: Thankyou.

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    It's quite possible it's the dia of the rifled coke that is giving you the good results rather that the fact it's rifled

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    Could also be the rifling grabbing the wad & pulling it cleanly off the slug maybe, as the groupings were terrible before I started putting the card/felt under the slug. Would really need a highspeed camera to get a good slow motion shot of wad & slug leaving the barrel.

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    there are some folks who put a big plug of silicon up the arse of those slugs.
    Lots of info on the castboolits thread about slug loads.
    the lee slug is like a giant oversized slug pellet so ANY spin will be better than none.
    75/15/10 black powder matters

 

 

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