Gilly08 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I own a SBEII and love it. I was deer hunting last season and a couple of the old guys at the hunting lease told me that shooting slugs out of my non-rifled barrel is bad for the barrel. Is this true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Gauge Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 WTF??? slugs can't hurt a smooth bore gun....you do want to use an "open" choke, i personally prefer a cyl or imp cyl when shooting slugs from smooth bore guns, but a modified choke works fine in some guns! i'm not sure what these guys are smoking but people have been shooting slugs from smooth bores longer than they have been shooting rifled barrels!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Novaking Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 People do it all the time. But I know 4 guys that have bulges in there field barrels now. 2 brownings, 1 mossberg, and one 870. Do what you want but I would have a slug gun or slug barrel. for an sbeII you can buy 2 guns for the price of a slug barrel so whatever. If you do use your field barrel, companys made rilfed slug chokes(lead only right 10 gauge ) to. I don't know how they shoot so your on your own there. novaking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4MUL8R Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I am not sure about the SBE barrel design. But, the original Beretta Xtrema is backbored. This makes the bore slightly larger than standard. It would not shoot slugs well. I called Beretta, and they said that it would not shoot slugs well by its nature. I was disappointed, as I wanted a do-everything shotgun. But, as another poster said, I could buy a rifled slug 870 and scope for the price of a Beretta barrel. And at the time, there was no rifled slug Xtrema barrel. So, check the design of the SBE barrel before using it for slugs. It may not work well by design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack0157 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I am not sure about the SBE barrel design. But, the original Beretta Xtrema is backbored. This makes the bore slightly larger than standard. Does anyone know off the top of their head if the SBE 2 is backbored, or how one could go about finding out for sure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Novaking Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 no its not novaking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOGWILD Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 http://www.benelliusa.com/customer-service/troubleshooting.tpl X2 no they do not want ya to backbore them due to Inertia System read last problem at bottom of page! Smooth bore slugs are very good at putting steak on the table and rifled slugs in a rifled barrel will give you a better pattern at a longer distance but nothing phenominal!! smooth bore slugs ar good to 100yds but not much farther! depends on your abulity and knowing your shotguns ballistics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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