[Uncle Buck]

I remember I was going to get me a whitetail with a shotgun. I have a 20 inch smooth bore barrel (Cylinder) that I purchased for my Model 37. Talk about a gun that kicks like a mule. The short barrel makes the gun to light.

Anyway when you use slugs, a smooth bore short barrel, you never know where the slug is going to hit a deer. You can shoot at the shoulder and you do not know where it going to hit the deer.
Have a friend who shot at the shoulder and hit the buck in the head.
Blew off one of the antlers. Killed him dead on the spot but wrecked the rack up.


If you are going to use a shotgun for a deer make sure that it has a rifled barrel and that the barrel is longer then 20 inches.


The smooth bore 20 inch cylinder barrel was made for shooting down your hallway with buckshot in it not slugs. Always joke around tell everyone. You know how shotgun will have scroll work on the stock that includes a rabbit or ringneck carved into the wood of the stock. Makes a shotgun look like a real small game hunting gun This little shotgun with the 20 inch barrel has milk carton carved into each side of the stock. It's the kind of gun someone would use to rob the corner convience store. You know milk cartons, convience store, etc.
Now if you were going to use 00 buck shot the cylinder barrel would be good but not for the ole punkin ball.

Im going to resurect the old hallway gun. Pennsylvania is going to allow predator hunter to use number # 4 buckshot for all predators. Might work out great for coyotes and fox and it might not. Will have to give it a try to see how it patterns with number # 4 buckshot. Got to be a better buckshot gun then a slug gun?

[Hands]

I bet that bad boy does kick like a mule.

And yeah..lol..sounds like would be better a b-shot gun than slug. Let us know though...sounds like a sweet gun.

[model99er]

Uncle Buck,

Is that "Model-37" as in an Ithica Model-37 ??


99er

[Uncle Buck]

Model99er is sure is. You know how light they are with a 30 inch barrel already.

Has to be one of my favorite guns. Actually killed a ruffed grouse with the 30 inch barrel on it. Full choked barrel at that. Nothing like a Ithaca Model 37.

Also I shoot left so since the shell ejects out the bottom thats great. Had a gunsmith change the safety real easy from righty to lefty.

[model99er]

UB,

Yanno, between us and a few other old coots, we otta buy Ithica ... they are still on the selling block, aren't they ??

Heck, buy them and somehow con Savage into giving us the rights to make Model-99's, I'd be in "hog heaven" !! ... lol


99er

[cal]

I find my 12 guage is fairly accurate with the short slug barrel. I've had it since before the rifled slug barrels became popular. It's a Remington 870. I think the barrel is 22". You're right about the recoil. It kicks like a mule. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

[ButchA]

Wow... slug guns... The ultimate in shoulder breakers...

I have a lefty version Remington 870 12GA with a 28" barrel. It's a real beauty and it can shoot anything I load in it.

I have shot 1oz slugs from it a few times at the range and soon after, my left shoulder told me "that's enough!"

I'd like to pick up a rifled barrel for the 870, but unfortunately, I don't think they make one in a lefty version. I have heard that between a smooth bore barrel and a rifled barrel, the rifled barrel is way more accurate.

[Uncle Buck]

I see many pump slug guns in 20 gauge configurations. 20 gauge slug is still big enough to knock a buck down at close quarters. However barrel would have to be rifled. The 20 would not kick like a mule. Probably only feel like a Billy Goat hitting you right in the shoulder with it's head.