Smooth bore trouble

Make sure the take down nut is tight. My Rem 1100 has shot good for the last 34 yrs. with a smoothbore slug barrel.

I think he's referring to the magazine tube nut?

What choke is in the barrel? Have you tried a different one?

Is it a scoped gun? If so it may be a junk scope.

You aren't shooting sabots out of it are you?

bowhunter1023 said:

Not to question his shooting skills, but eliminating human error goes a long way toward determining what needs done when sighting in a gun.

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X2. Sighting in a gun with a rest eliminates alot of errors.

bowhunter1023 said:

Not to question his shooting skills, but eliminating human error goes a long way toward determining what needs done when sighting in a gun.

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True. In most cases, you just need to eliminate by isolating all aspects of the shot. Its not to question the shooter but more help resolve the problem.

What is the make/model?

Not questioning his ability, but sighting in should always be done with a solid rest. When possible a rest should be used when hunting TOO.

Exactly. Not to question his ability but what worked last year may not work for him this year sighting in. Just saying.

Hortontoter said:

Not questioning his ability, but sighting in should always be done with a solid rest. When possible a rest should be used when hunting TOO.

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Remington 870 express

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Get a rifled barrel and a box of copper solids. Problem solved.

PSE13 said:

No were using rifled slugs. He is going too make sure everything is tight. I told him about trying a rest. He has just always free handed it and has always been dead nuts. No scope either.

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I would think using rifled slugs out of a smooth bore would cause some issues. For one the bullet has wings to catch the rifling in a barrel to spin. With a smooth bore you don't have that and the bullet doesn't get the initial spin from the barrel. When that bullet leaves the barrel it just wobbles and has no consistency at all. With that smooth barrel I would go back to the old pumpkin ball style slug. Still might have some inconsistency because that's just the nature of the beast with smooth bore guns but probably not as bad as your getting now. That's just my thoughts on the thing. IDK lol.

Now that he has the rifled barrel he should be able to use the rifled slugs just fine. Just need to find a slug that flies the best. I always hated shooting slugs just because it gets expensive quick trying to find one that works the best. The slugs that worked the best for me was the Copper Solids but that was years ago and at the time they was still expensive at $8.00 a box but I think they are close to $20 for a box now lol. I also never worried about 3" slugs and just went with the 2-3/4" slugs. Even tried some of the low recoil slugs that did ok. Just need to try a few different brands and see what the gun likes and sometimes that's not what WE like lol.