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Originally posted by BLUEHAWK
What would happen if a shotgun DID have rifling, using the same "slug" round?
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Guess it wouldn't be a shotgun then. It'd be a shotrifle.
It's generally considered a bad idea to shoot shot (little balls) from a rifled barrel. Ruins the rifling, so they say.
Noncoformist that I am, my main piece is a 13mm Mauser 1886 model, basically a second-generation bolt action and pretty primitive. Don't know where Grandpa got it from, but it's mine now. Because of the age of it, I use a slightly reduced load for safety. Because of its gargantuan (by modern rifle standards) caliber, it makes a respectable fouling piece, so I did up some shells with what's basically a .410 birdshot load, soft lead only. Works just fine.
Don't expect I'm doin' it any good, but haven't noticed any loss of accuracy with regular ammo from usin' it that way yet.
(Historical gun collectors having a heart attack now can relax - the original battle sites were hacked off long before my time and replaced with home-made groove sites. The gun prolly ain't worth the wood it's sittin on.)