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  • brushtrooper

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    I put a rifled cantilever barrel on my 870 and topped it with a Nikon slughunter BDC. I was playing with it at the local range shooting some 2-3/4 and 3" mags through it. I need to fine tune it and get it ready for deer season. I plan to spend some quality time stalk hunting a heavily wooded river bottom this season. Any advice/suggestions on slugs? This is my first go with a slug gun.
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    SloppyShooter

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    I don't have any information on it, but eventually I would like to get a slug barrel ( maybe even a dedicated shotgun).

    I shot a few slugs many many years ago through a factory full choke barrel J.C.Higgins bolt action 20 ga. It was surprisingly accurate. Not a 100yrd. gun, ( especially with just a bead), but good enough at 50.
     

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    Point and shoot?
    When you say point and shoot I imagine you mean a fast shot? I would imagine this will be the case or very well could be. I would have preferred an open sight barrel but its what I have to work with and to be honest with my vision now, the scope cant hurt. I just have to pick my shots, I will be stalk hunting, no blind or rests.
     

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    When you say point and shoot I imagine you mean a fast shot? I would imagine this will be the case or very well could be. I would have preferred an open sight barrel but its what I have to work with and to be honest with my vision now, the scope cant hurt. I just have to pick my shots, I will be stalk hunting, no blind or rests.

    Then you ought to get the barrel and try it out. Might be you don't need anything but a gambel and a knife.

    I'm not saying take it out blind, but shoot it at a range as is at 50 yards. It may be you don't need to do squat to use it in your anticipated conditions.
     

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    When you say point and shoot I imagine you mean a fast shot? I would imagine this will be the case or very well could be. I would have preferred an open sight barrel but its what I have to work with and to be honest with my vision now, the scope cant hurt. I just have to pick my shots, I will be stalk hunting, no blind or rests.

    There’s several things you’ve brought up.

    1. Rifled barrel for shotgun
    2. Stalk/walk and shoot
    3. Eyesight
    4. Slugs

    What all these things have in common is density of brush and eyesight at <100 yds.

    That’s open site distances and I’d normally suggest either a ghost ring setup or a red dot.

    My experience is the red dot works best with both eyes open, so now the question becomes what’s your eyesight issue?
     

    jrbfishn

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    Is the barrel smoothbore or rifled. Rifled barrels with sabots are pretty darn accurate. But either way, a decent red dot sight should be plenty good out to 100 yards depending on just how bad your eyes are.

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    brushtrooper

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    There’s several things you’ve brought up.

    1. Rifled barrel for shotgun
    2. Stalk/walk and shoot
    3. Eyesight
    4. Slugs

    What all these things have in common is density of brush and eyesight at <100 yds.

    That’s open site distances and I’d normally suggest either a ghost ring setup or a red dot.

    My experience is the red dot works best with both eyes open, so now the question becomes what’s your eyesight issue?
    I probably exaggerated my eyesight issue. Just not as good as when in my 20's. Not legally blind or anything like that. I mainly use glasses at work for close up computer, documents and blue prints. I had not thought of the red dot. I would imagine most shots would be with in 50-75 yrds in the river bottom/ heavy brush area I plan to stalk.
     

    toddnjoyce

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    I probably exaggerated my eyesight issue. Just not as good as when in my 20's. Not legally blind or anything like that. I mainly use glasses at work for close up computer, documents and blue prints. I had not thought of the red dot. I would imagine most shots would be with in 50-75 yrds in the river bottom/ heavy brush area I plan to stalk.

    Ok, with the 3-9 Nikon you’ve already got, I would see what the field of view looks like at 3x at 50/75/100 yards.

    Rifles barrel suggests a sabot slug.

    There’s probably 6” of drop between 50 yd zero and 100 yds. The question is whether your scope is first or second focal plane if you plan to use the BDC function.
     
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