[fabsroman]

NewB,

At the time of this reply, I see you have 4 posts already. However, just in case nobody has welcomed you to the board yet, welcome aboard.

Yep, Skeet is right. Usually he is right about guns. Now, just don't ask him for advice on women. LOL

When using a sabot, you need some type of rifling in the barrel. Sabots are made for rifled barrels.

Rifled slugs are made for smooth barrels with absolutely no rifling in the barrel or the choke tube. That is why the slug has rifling on it.

Now, I think Remington is coming out with some lead slugs that are made for rifled barrels and/or rifled choke tubes. Those slugs will not have the rifling built into them.

Tell your buddy to spend the $30 and try the choke tube out at the range. If he doesn't notice any difference in accuracy while shooting sabots out of it, he can sell it on e-bay, or he can get somebody he knows to sell it on e-bay. I might just start selling a couple things on e-bay myself.

Me, I use a fully rifled barrel with Federal Barnes Expander sabots and they shoot really well out to 100 yards. Last year I tried the new Remington Core-Lokt sabots in the same barrel because I did not have the time to find the Federan Barnes Expanders, and those sabots shoot terribly out of the gun, but still better than rifled slugs through a smoothbore.