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I've been reading ove this forum since this was my first season hunting with a slug gun, and have found a few comments on the Lightfield 3-1/2" slugs but it looks like nobody is actually shooting them. I shoot a Mossberg 835 with a 24" rifled barrel that IS stamped for up to 3-1/2" slugs (I've read on here that this has been an ongoing Q with some). So far I've been lucky enough to bag a red fox, a nice 9" bearded gobbler and took a small scrub 6 ptr. out of our herd. I know it's prob. overkill (especially for the fox :wink: ) but I shot four types of slugs when I setup the gun and these grouped the best so I've stuck with them. Just wanted to know if I was the only one willing to take a kick in the pants everytime I pull the trigger.
 
3.5 inch slug shooter? I've heard about you before, your the talk of the town here. Some of the people think your crazy, others just think your a bit looney. Glad to finally meet you... :D
 
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Not the first time I've heard that. I'll prob. take the time before next season and see if I can get a good group out of a 3" but I have also shot enough to know that each gun likes certain ammo. If I can find one that groups at 100 as good as these I'll make the switch, we'll see.
 
cb11 said:
Just wanted to know if I was the only one willing to take a kick in the pants everytime I pull the trigger.
Absolutely! :shock: :shock:
So you're that guy everyone is talking about???? :!: :!:

Well, while you're still around, before you suffer detached retina, dislocated joints, concusion, or even more brain damage, could you please define "good groups"?
Please; not " I can hit an orange crate at 50 yards", or, " I can roll a gallon jug at 75 yards", post some numbers, like inches at yards. Something we can relate to. :wink:

Hope you have a sense of humor 'cause I couldn't pass on the jokes.
No harm meant.
:B3 {hs#
 
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Don't worry guys, I'm not one of those who asked a Q then gets all P'd off when someone makes a good joke out of it. I know these things are a handful and a bit overkill.

To answer the group Q, I got about a 3" group at 100 yds off a bench with a Predator rest. It was windy the day I sighted it in so I think that prob. affected my groupings some.

I know I shot the 3" buckhammers and a 3" from Lightfield but can't recall what the others were, the rackmaster and the super X maybe. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the SST's or the XP3's and think I'll give them a try.

I want to find a round that I feel confident shooting at 125-150 yds in the field. I've been hunting in a rifle county for years and now have some land to hunt in a shotgun only county and want to be able to reach out and get 'em when needed.
 
cb11 said:
Am I the only 3-1/2" slug shooter?
Nope, I hand load and shoot them as well, either the Lyman 525gr. wad-slug or big bad boy 700gr. full bore flying trash cans similar to what Dixie loads commercially. Here are some of my past posts on the matter (emphasis added):

turbo1889 said:
Well two of my slug guns wear 4x power short and fat tactical rifle scopes originally designed to be mounted atop M-1A, AR-15, SKS, AK, etc. They seem to work just fine for me.

I've also got a cross-bow scope mounted on a third 12ga. gun that I reamed the chamber out to take big bad 3-1/2" shells. With Dixie type super heavy slugs I can lob them out there past the 200 yard mark like artiliary using the cross-bow style rectile to account for the rainbow like flight path of the slug. Havn't actually tried that yet with game --- I'd have to have a spoter equiped with lazer range finder to pull that one off successfully but it's darn fun on the range !!!! :D
turbo1889 said:
Favorite slug gun? Oh boy choices, choices.

Well here is what I've got:

1 @ NEF-USH 12ga. 3" chamber 4x tactical scope
1 @ NEF-USH 12ga. 3-1/2" chamber with cross-bow scope (long range arc trajectery lob them like artilary)
1 @ NEF-USH 20ga. 3" chamber 4x tactical scope
1 @ NEF Tracker thin barrel rifled slug gun 3" chamber with fiber optic sights
1 @ Tactical sawed-off "cop-gun" high-capacty pump 2-3/4" chamber fiber optic front sight only
1 @ NEF 45-Colt/410-Shot combination gun with rifled barrel and reamed out chamber. Use full length magtech brass 410 cases with a big cast lead 45-Colt slug seated below the mouth. Loaded hot with 45-70 load data. Still a 410 slug via. the law because 410 is stamped on the brass head and it's a single chunk of lead seated below the mouth of the case.
1 @ Saiga-410 stock except for holographic red-dot sight.

As you can plainly see I'm very partial to the NEF guns with rifled barrels especially the USH models. Also got me a much stronger NEF rifle frame that I'm planing on having a 20ga. USH barrel fitted too then I'm planning on reaming out the chamber to 3-1/2" to make myself a gun to shoot the Hastings slugs in on the cheap.

If I had to sell them all except for one I'd keep the top one on the list.
turbo1889 said:
Yup, they [3-1/2" 12ga. slugs] exist. All you have to do is take the Lyman 1-3/16oz. "overgrown air-gun pellet" wad-slugs and load them in 3-1/2" magnum hulls.

No problem, dude. In fact you can also take a NEF ultra slug hunter (rifled barrel) in 12ga. and have your friendly local gun smith ream out the chamber for the 3-1/2" shells. Yes, it's perfectly safe because NEF makes interchangable barrels for that frame designed for turkey hunting that are chambered for the 3-1/2" shell. Or you could just buy the reamer and do the chore yourself. Oh, yah, with the right load combination you can get those slugs to break the 2,000 fps. barrier. Just make sure you cast them from Type-metal and use only the tough Federal wads (12S3 & 12S4).
 
You are not the only nut shooting the 3.5 slugs. I took a heck of a good beating, working up the 3.5 inch slug load, I sell out of my shop. I still think it is more of a big push, than a sharp recoil :shock: One of the nuts I load for, showed me his 250 yard target with his 835, and he had 3 shots in a 3 inch group. A few of the people here think he, and I, are full of ****, but I know he is a good shooter on a good day. He also told me to never change that load, or he would be hunting me down with my own loads :)

I have a few people that would be hunting me down, if I ever changed the loads. Yes, I load the Lyman sabot :D
 
I've been reading ove this forum since this was my first season hunting with a slug gun, and have found a few comments on the Lightfield 3-1/2" slugs but it looks like nobody is actually shooting them. I shoot a Mossberg 835 with a 24" rifled barrel that IS stamped for up to 3-1/2" slugs (I've read on here that this has been an ongoing Q with some). So far I've been lucky enough to bag a red fox, a nice 9" bearded gobbler and took a small scrub 6 ptr. out of our herd. I know it's prob. overkill (especially for the fox 😉 ) but I shot four types of slugs when I setup the gun and these grouped the best so I've stuck with them. Just wanted to know if I was the only one willing to take a kick in the pants everytime I pull the trigger.
I love using the 3 1/2 slugs in my mossberg slugster. I like way it knocks the deer down . I have about 20 shells left .I can't even find 3 inch anywhere how about you ?
 
WOW! For someone who shoots 2.5 inch in .410 because can't stand recoil from magnum 3 inch loads, I am impressed!

Macho, macho man! I want to be your macho man!
Sing along now! 😂
 
3 `1/2 Slugs. Wow, you mentioned "kick in the pants". those will take you out of your pants.

Plus the 835 if I remember right is a .740 over bore.. Slugs are all set up for .730 barrels. Not going to shoot well at all!!!! Go buy a savage 220 in 20 gauge. Taken deer at 240 yards with 20 ga slugs. Good slugs with the savage will group 1.5 inches at 100.
 
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