My nova with the factory improved cylinder choke shot remington sluggers best and extremely close to point of aim at 50 yards with the center and front bead 26 inch barrel. Extremely happy with its performance.
Slugs can be very accurate. Foster slugs in a rifled choke tube at 50 yards can shoot an inch group. I shoot 2.5 inch groups with a smoothbore regularly and wouldnt except no more than 3.5 inch groups with any hunting slug. The foster slug will engauge the rifling in a rifled barrel and will usually shrink the groups. The Lyman slug I load will shoot under 2 inch at 50 with a smooth bore. I would suggest trying different chokes and slugs to see whitch one youre gun likes best. And rifel choke tubes usually improve my groups.
Thanks for your trouble - was most informative. I have been relaoding some Foster cast slugs and some Lee 1oz slugs. I glued the wads to the Lee slugs and was happy with 25 yards
Herters slugs are Winchester slugs, just different branding. You're comparing apples to apples from the same tree. Any difference you see is a normal batch to batch variation.
Were you using a Cylinder Bore (Cyl) choke or Improved Cylinder (IC)? IC is said to be the best choice when shooting Foster slugs from a smooth bore shotgun.
if you put a b-square saddle scope mount on there it will it will shoot 2" groups at 100. nova's are good guns for throwing slugs. they have a tighter bore than american made shotguns and it shows with slugs.
Your results match my results exactly in every single way. I used to think there's something wrong with my shotgun. Nope. Slugs just aren't super accurate. They do weird stuff in flight.
My nova with the factory improved cylinder choke shot remington sluggers best and extremely close to point of aim at 50 yards with the center and front bead 26 inch barrel. Extremely happy with its performance.
Slugs can be very accurate. Foster slugs in a rifled choke tube at 50 yards can shoot an inch group. I shoot 2.5 inch groups with a smoothbore regularly and wouldnt except no more than 3.5 inch groups with any hunting slug. The foster slug will engauge the rifling in a rifled barrel and will usually shrink the groups. The Lyman slug I load will shoot under 2 inch at 50 with a smooth bore. I would suggest trying different chokes and slugs to see whitch one youre gun likes best. And rifel choke tubes usually improve my groups.
Thanks for your trouble - was most informative. I have been relaoding some Foster cast slugs and some Lee 1oz slugs. I glued the wads to the Lee slugs and was happy with 25 yards
Herters slugs are Winchester slugs, just different branding. You're comparing apples to apples from the same tree. Any difference you see is a normal batch to batch variation.
A Carlson's rifled choke tube and a decent cheap optic gave me better groups with 20 gauge 3/4 oz foster slug super X. Good video
Probably need to shoot off a bench with a rear bag,pull forearm down and backward to determine accuracy potential…
Were you using a Cylinder Bore (Cyl) choke or Improved Cylinder (IC)? IC is said to be the best choice when shooting Foster slugs from a smooth bore shotgun.
if you put a b-square saddle scope mount on there it will it will shoot 2" groups at 100. nova's are good guns for throwing slugs. they have a tighter bore than american made shotguns and it shows with slugs.
Your results match my results exactly in every single way. I used to think there's something wrong with my shotgun. Nope. Slugs just aren't super accurate. They do weird stuff in flight.
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