Wanted to see what experience IDO may have on this subject. Now ideally I’d like to get my hands on a savage 220 (or an Ithaca deer slayer if I’m feeling rich) but with the scarcity of them right now I would rather wait until I can get exactly what I want and not the first one I can find. This will primarily be for my son who is quickly becoming ‘hunting aged’ I should add. I currently have an older Winchester 20ga pump (no longer produced and to my knowledge no rifle barrel an option outside of a custom build) which doesn’t pattern rifled slugs to my liking (probably because that CVA Accura has spoiled me). I do have a smoothbore ‘slug’ barrel for it (and a choked vent. Rib barrel) I have been thinking about picking up a rifled choke tube and trying it out to see if it tightens the groups up. So my questions to IDO are 1) has anyone done this and seen a marked improvement (would likely still use rifled slugs) and 2) do I risk any abnormal damage toy vent rib barrel by throwing slugs through it with that rifled choke (seeing as it’s no longer made I don’t want to ruin the ‘bird’ barrel)? I’ve watched a number of video reviews and seen both noticeable improvements and no noticeable improvements. I’m not expecting it to turn it into a weapon where I can throw multiple slugs through the same hole at 50 but I couldn’t do better than about a 4″-5″ group at 50 in the slug barrel(tried with both Winchester super x and rem. sluggers) which just ain’t cutting it for me (for reference (that it’s not me) the attached picture was two rounds at 50 with my Accura I shot prior to the shotgun, didn’t take a picture of the shotgun groups as I was not pleased with them (only shot twice to conserve my blackhorn powder))
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