slug gun

[fabsroman]

WT,

I knew I was going to have a problem with the up adjustment on my SBE because of the way the "rib" on the receiver angles upward. So, I bought some Burris Signature rings and the offset inserts to use in my gun and it works great. I had to add a lot of offset to it to get the laser bore sighter to come close, but I have plenty of play left in the scope because I got it bore sighted without having to use any windage or elevation and that also makes for a much better scope alignment. I wish Burris sold some Signature rings that I could use on my Ruger rifles that didn't look like crap; however, I guess the Ruger rings have been working pretty well over these years (i.e., don't fix what isn't broken).

Browning 2000,

I agree completely with what you said. Accuracy is all in the eye of the beholder. When I first started using a slug gun, I would take it to the range, fire 5 shots at a paper plate at 50 yards, and be extremely happy with it and then use it the next weekend to kill deer and it did quite well. I also subscribe to Rocky Raab's point of view that a hunting gun only needs to be minute of animal. In this case, minute of deer. So, any slug gun that can consistantly put the slug in the vitals of a deer at the range the shooter intends to use it is just fine. Shooting perfect groups with a slug gun is almost useless because the drop is too extreme to get the benefit of the extreme accuracy, but I still like getting my gun as accurate as possible. I like knowing that wherever that "X" is on the animal is where the sabot is going to end up if I do my part. Then, when I miss I know it was all me, not all the gun, and not partly me and partly the gun.