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Welcome to Mossberg Owners Forum! Please make yourself at home. If you get a chance post up some pictures of your firearms as we all enjoy checking out each others collections.
Welcome to Mossberg Owners Forum! Please make yourself at home. If you get a chance post up some pictures of your firearms as we all enjoy checking out each others collections.
Welcome aboard Sir!
Glad you found us. Thanks for the pics and let us know if you have any questions. Love that P250!
Glad you found us. Thanks for the pics and let us know if you have any questions. Love that P250!
Very nice!
EDIT:
Dan posted right before I did, so some of this is redundant.
You can... But if the barrel is a smooth bore or cylinder bore, a rifled slug is going to be more accurate. The sabot is designed to work in a rifled barrel as the round its self has no rifling, more like a bullet through any long gun. A rifle is a rifled barrel, the bullet is not. Thats how a sabot through a shotgun works too.
If you fire the sabot through a smooth bore barrel, as the 930 SPX is, the round will begin to tumble through the air. The sabot round relies on the rifling to stabalize it, where a rifled slug has rifling incorporated to produce the spin it needs to be stabalized through the bore of the gun. Some chokes are rifled I think.
Oh! Also, shot (birdshot or buckshot) through a rifled barrel doesnt work so good either. The pattern will be like a doughnut, circlular with a big hole in the middle, and depending on the range, the hole can be big enough for a small mammal to fit through. Or if you turkey hunt, you can forget hitting the thing in the head.
So, on the 930 SPX, take a look at the left side of the barrel in front of the receiver. It will have the barrel length, the length of the shell it is chambered for, and I believe you will find it says "cylider bore", which is a smooth barrel and essentially an open choke. This is great for things like buckshot and rifled slugs!!!
Dan posted right before I did, so some of this is redundant.
You can... But if the barrel is a smooth bore or cylinder bore, a rifled slug is going to be more accurate. The sabot is designed to work in a rifled barrel as the round its self has no rifling, more like a bullet through any long gun. A rifle is a rifled barrel, the bullet is not. Thats how a sabot through a shotgun works too.
If you fire the sabot through a smooth bore barrel, as the 930 SPX is, the round will begin to tumble through the air. The sabot round relies on the rifling to stabalize it, where a rifled slug has rifling incorporated to produce the spin it needs to be stabalized through the bore of the gun. Some chokes are rifled I think.
Oh! Also, shot (birdshot or buckshot) through a rifled barrel doesnt work so good either. The pattern will be like a doughnut, circlular with a big hole in the middle, and depending on the range, the hole can be big enough for a small mammal to fit through. Or if you turkey hunt, you can forget hitting the thing in the head.
So, on the 930 SPX, take a look at the left side of the barrel in front of the receiver. It will have the barrel length, the length of the shell it is chambered for, and I believe you will find it says "cylider bore", which is a smooth barrel and essentially an open choke. This is great for things like buckshot and rifled slugs!!!