jkfletcher
Master
Please(so I don't come across as entitled to info )
I've never hunted before but after the last couple of years of eating deer meat that my father-in-law sent home with us, I wanna go. I started looking at shotguns a bit ago and I've pretty much settled on a Mossberg 500 12ga(inexpensive, great reviews), but the wife thinks I should get a rifle so as not to have shot pellets all in the meat. From what I can gather from, it seems that I could get a rifled slug barrel to go along with the smooth bore and that the slug is more like a bullet so it wouldn't scatter shot. Is that accurate? Or is it more that if you used a rifled barrel that you could shoot a regular rifle cartridge? Or do you even need a rifled barrel to shoot a slug? If you don't need a rifled barrel, is there an advantage in terms of accuracy with either barrel? Thanks in advance
I've never hunted before but after the last couple of years of eating deer meat that my father-in-law sent home with us, I wanna go. I started looking at shotguns a bit ago and I've pretty much settled on a Mossberg 500 12ga(inexpensive, great reviews), but the wife thinks I should get a rifle so as not to have shot pellets all in the meat. From what I can gather from, it seems that I could get a rifled slug barrel to go along with the smooth bore and that the slug is more like a bullet so it wouldn't scatter shot. Is that accurate? Or is it more that if you used a rifled barrel that you could shoot a regular rifle cartridge? Or do you even need a rifled barrel to shoot a slug? If you don't need a rifled barrel, is there an advantage in terms of accuracy with either barrel? Thanks in advance