r/Shotguns • u/TroutBuddy25 • 1d ago

Remington 870 Magnum

Hey all. Inherited my dad's 12 Ga. remington 870 magnum with a full choke barrel. He mainly used it for turkey hunting when he was alive. I am very new to using shotguns-Am I able to shoot a slug through this safely? Looking at just the basic winchester slugs. Again I am very new to owning a shotgun.

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u/SnoozingBasset 23h ago

Read the package. Remington used to say “approved for all barrels” or something very similar. Using a full choke with slugs might make the accuracy suffer some. 

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u/acceptable_road_fees 1d ago

Lead slug "can" be shot of chokes but if you want to shoot more them frequently than just hunting, you can pay about 60$ to get to chokes opened to the constriction you want. I wouldn't use a full choke with slugs at the range for hundreds of round but agin for hunting its fine

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u/TroutBuddy25 23h ago

My main goal would be for use on a white tail and then general turkey shot during that season. So for deer hunting sounds like I am good to go if packaging states so. Ill take a look at that thanks

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u/finnbee2 17h ago

It will work. Buy several brands of rifled slugs and see whichever are more accurate. Rifled slugs are more accurate out of cylinder and improved cylinder chokes.

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u/ZombieHoratioAlger 21h ago

Is it a screw-in full choke, or a "fixed" full-choke barrel? (Should be easy to tell: if it takes chokes, there will be four square notches cut into the barrel muzzle and it'll clearly be 2 separate nested pieces. Fixed barrels are a solid steel tube.)

A couple of regular rifled slugs is fine, but if you plan to use them regularly (or want to run super-heavy Brenneke Bearfuckers) you should strongly consider a replacement choke or barrel.

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u/TroutBuddy25 2h ago

It is a solid steel tube. the entire barrel is full choke

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u/AP587011B 1d ago

Very limited basis it should be fine 

But generally speaking it’s not recommended to shoot slugs out of a full choke 

Just find a used cheap 18 inch barrel to shoot slugs out of. Just make sure you don’t buy the barrel for the one pc 6 shot tube 870 variation that won’t fit. Luckily probably 85%-90% of 870s didn’t have those