The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Shotguns => Topic started by: santahog on November 05, 2011, 11:22:48 AM
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I watched a thing on Guns & Ammo reviewing the Stoeger 3500.
I'm not looking at that one, but the 2000. The impression I got from the review was that it was a good bird gun. The guy didn't touch on Buck Shot or Slug. I know that the action is basically a Benelli but the barrel isn't treated the same as the Benelli.
Can anyone tell me either way, if the Stoeger 2000 barrel is safe to run Buck, and/or Slugs through, consistantly, please?
Thank you all..
Joe
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Got two-one for each of my boys. Someone had a sale on a combo turkey and duck gun. It included 21 & 26 barrels and both regular and pistol grip stocks. Wish I would have gotten several more at that price.
They work IF you break them in right. They need a couple boxes of full power mag loads before you try to run target loads.
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It's designed as a bird gun. Before you take the word of anyone here, talk to Benelli or Stoeger about slugs and buck shot.
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Last I looked, there were minimal differences between the hunting and tactical versions. The turkey barrel takes screw in chokes, the tactical doesn't.
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The choke tubes are the sticking point for me. I know nothing about them. With barrels, you want either cylinder or improved cylinder for buck or Foster slugs. Sabot slugs you want a rifled bore, but that will totally screw up a shot pattern. I have no idea what, if any, efect shooting buck or slugs out of a choke tubed barrel will have. ???
FQ13 who says it sounds like you got a deal RW. I've shot their coach guns and liked them, and they have a new upland SxS that looks nice. I look forward to some feed back on the two you bought.
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The choke tubes are the sticking point for me. I know nothing about them. With barrels, you want either cylinder or improved cylinder for buck or Foster slugs. Sabot slugs you want a rifled bore, but that will totally screw up a shot pattern. I have no idea what, if any, efect shooting buck or slugs out of a choke tubed barrel will have. ???
FQ13 who says it sounds like you got a deal RW. I've shot their coach guns and liked them, and they have a new upland SxS that looks nice. I look forward to some feed back on the two you bought.
Shooting slugs through screw in choke tubes can blow the tubes out of the barrel, ruining the threads.
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So what do the guys shooting 3 gun use? ??? They have strings that have slug only engagement and the rest are shot.
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The choke tubes are the sticking point for me. I know nothing about them. With barrels, you want either cylinder or improved cylinder for buck or Foster slugs. Sabot slugs you want a rifled bore, but that will totally screw up a shot pattern. I have no idea what, if any, efect shooting buck or slugs out of a choke tubed barrel will have. ???
FQ13 who says it sounds like you got a deal RW. I've shot their coach guns and liked them, and they have a new upland SxS that looks nice. I look forward to some feed back on the two you bought.
You can shoot slugs out of a choke tubed barrel as long as it is a cylinder choke - absolutely no restriction! Any choking will cause the slug to take the tube out with it. The same has been seen in rifled choke tubes - The attempt to start to spin a slug that has had the chance to reach max velocity can take the tube out*.
*I had the opportunity to remove a rifled choke tube for a friend that couldn't get it out. The force applied to the tube during shooting had spun it so tight that I mounted a second vise to the bench, clamped the receiver in one and the barrel near the muzzle end in the other, and I used a 24" pipe wrench on the knurled end of the tube :o
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I shoot Federal Tactical reduced recoil or Fiocchi Aero slugs out of my 21" Benelli M1S90 with a Light Modified extended Briley choke tube...I milled in a 10/22 flip up rear sight, and HiViz FlashPoint triangular fiber optic front.... will shoot about 3" at 50yds (I can't see any better than that)...made an A shot on a bobber at 60y at Ft Benning last year.... 22 slugs in the house clearing without a problem...check to see that your choke tubes are tight (I Loctite mine)
youtube...ft benning 3gun 2010
stage 3 ...22slugs
stage 8 bobber shots
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I shoot Federal Tactical reduced recoil or Fiocchi Aero slugs out of my 21" Benelli M1S90 with a Light Modified extended Briley choke tube...I milled in a 10/22 flip up rear sight, and HiViz FlashPoint triangular fiber optic front.... will shoot about 3" at 50yds (I can't see any better than that)...made an A shot on a bobber at 60y at Ft Benning last year.... 22 slugs in the house clearing without a problem...check to see that your choke tubes are tight (I Loctite mine)
youtube...ft benning 3gun 2010
stage 3 ...22slugs
stage 8 bobber shots
Is this the video you mentioned?
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PegLeg45...the one for 11mim47s has a little better perspective of the targets, and a little of the flair the AMU puts in a stage like the Stryker ride and smoke...for stage one at the Conex outpost, I had to hold off about 16" for the 400m flash target due to wind.... to be able to shoot a rifle at elevated targets and not worry about the fall out area was really strange....
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I love my Stoeger 2000! I have used it for dove, waterfowl, turkey, predator, deer and small game. It will shoot slugs just fine with the proper choke. Mine has shot a ton of 000 and 4 buck for predator not to mention heavy turkey and goose loads. This gun has been run hard and performed at 100%. It even went for a swim one winter during duck season at 15* weather and did just fine after it was thawed out ;D
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Well, I finally got it.. 12/24 Turkey Gun..
I had some left over #8s from the last 12 ga. I had, and it didn't like them at all. I was afraid I was going to have a bad one. Once I got through that last box, I got into some new stuff, which it didn't like either.. It just didn't want to cycle. I put some Rio High Brass #5 through it and still just didn't like anything.. I have some canned magic, though.. I put a couple of shots of Ballistol in the action and within 5 rounds, it was running as smooth and quick as the Benelli..
Got a +5 extension from Nordic on its way and a recoil reducer so the wife will maybe pick it up again.. (Not a gun girl) She said the thing was too heavy. I wonder what she'll think when I get the recoil reducer, +5 and a dead chicken hanging off the end..
NEW TOY! NEW TOY!