CRC have you ever been hunting?
Oh you can bet he was deadly on the old Nintendo duck hunt gameCRC have you ever been hunting?
Yes I wouldn't have believed it either but I ask two wardens together. They looked at each other with no discussion and said no and kinda chuckled. Make no sense to me.Let me get this straight. A rifled-barrel slug gun is considered a "shotgun" for deer hunting and can be used in any shotgun zone in the state. But, during turkey season, the same gun becomes a "rifle" and will get you a ticket. NC also has no designated shotgun loads for turkey, so they can be legally killed with buckshot or slugs, but you must fire it down a smooth barrel?. And I swear guys, I don't hang around, or even know CRC
Why use iron sights, why not a scope?If your worried about it, get a smoothbore barrel with rifle sight. Load it with Foster style slugs and kill away out to bout 75 yards it really good accuracy.
That will work, too. I recon I said that because my smooth bore has rifle sights. I have used a saddle mount on it. I have had trouble with cantilevers returning to zero under heavy recoiling loads on my Rem. 11-87 and a Hastings rifled barrel. I actually returned the barrel and tried another, tried multiple scopes too. Had to be the cantilever as one of the scopes was off my other slug gun, which had no problem holding zero. Now this was with 7/8 oz slugs cruising at 1950 fps out of the muzzle(measured on Chrony), same slug I shoot out of the 210F. Never seen a problem with cantilevers with slugs with MV around 1500 fps.Why use iron sights, why not a scope?
They usually put set screws in the receiver and dimple the barrel so it all lines back up perfectly and that helps. I think the barrel is what isn't going back exactly in place more than the scope.That will work, too. I recon I said that because my smooth bore has rifle sights. I have used a saddle mount on it. I have had trouble with cantilevers returning to zero under heavy recoiling loads on my Rem. 11-87 and a Hastings rifled barrel. I actually returned the barrel and tried another, tried multiple scopes too. Had to be the cantilever as one of the scopes was off my other slug gun, which had no problem holding zero. Now this was with 7/8 oz slugs cruising at 1950 fps out of the muzzle(measured on Chrony), same slug I shoot out of the 210F. Never seen a problem with cantilevers with slugs with MV around 1500 fps.
Never had that issue with a saddle mount. I could apply pressure to the cantilever and could see movement of the scope. Turns out the 11-87 could not stand the recoil and the bolt carrier broke, so I gave up on that project. I do know "pinning" the barrel should increase the consistency from shot to shot.They usually put set screws in the receiver and dimple the barrel so it all lines back up perfectly and that helps. I think the barrel is what isn't going back exactly in place more than the scope.
Why?Wouldn't a rifled slug gun be considered a "weapon of mass destruction", if it were truly deemed a rifle?
My reference was due to caliber?Why?
Shotguns are 18" rifle is 16"
The question is, can you cut a rifled barrel back to 16" due to it being rifled?
Serious Question...Why would you want to hunt Turkey with a slug gun?
I get the question of range. But would a slug ruin too much meat, and is a slug gun accurate enough in real hunting situations? The exception might be a TarHunter or Savage 210...Ever had a gobbler "hang up" about 100 yds out?
I don't think that any Warden, or Judge, or Jury, is going to rule against you on that. Its about the ammo it fires, not the barrel.Nobody does.
But the question was originally about game lands that prohibit center fire rifles
to fire through a smooth bore
in a fixed cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled barrel