What's the point of putting a scope on a shotgun again?

What's the point of putting a scope on a shotgun again?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    So you can see things that are far away closer dumass

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd rather use a laser instead of a scope.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >+10 range and accuracy
    >Increaed crit chance
    Non meme answer, so you can see what your shooting better.
    Shooting slugs at game or Turkey, where you only get one shot, and most of the target is obscured by vegetation.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't mean shooting slugs at Turkey before some autist starts correcting me

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        But that's based

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Could you theorethicaly hand load some salt and pepper in the shell instead of buckshot to pre-season the turkey?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You could put it in the shell but it wouldn't fly very far and probably wouldn't even make it to the target, particles of salt and pepper have even shittier ballistics than roundball shot. Maybe big rock salt?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            One of those high speed video channels tried rock salt in a shotgun shell. The salt broke apart and scattered into nothingness.
            There might be room for a lot of experimentation though. Use really cushy wads and filler, slow velocities with slow burning powders, and different salts. It might work with a saboted salt slug.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Use really cushy wads and filler, slow velocities with slow burning powders
              that would probably help. I bet adding buffer like people do with buckshot or large sizes of birdshot would help too. The type of salt would likely matter as well, I bet those big pellets used for water softeners would be good. They are quite hard.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You want alternative shot and seasoning shells

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          No, however minced garlic, onion, rosemary, and mustard seed have far better ballistic and flavor effect over salt and pepper, making them ideal for seasoning loads

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I sense an upcoming Paul Harrell video

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You want alternative shot and seasoning shells

          No, however minced garlic, onion, rosemary, and mustard seed have far better ballistic and flavor effect over salt and pepper, making them ideal for seasoning loads

          Based chefposters

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This, really. They're good for when you're pretending your shotgun is a rifle and you're shooting it at relatively stationary targets at distance. Shooting turkeys or hunting with slugs favors a scope. But for the most common uses of a shotgun--point shooting at fast moving things like birds, squirrels, rabbits, clays--scope sucks.

      Same reason you'd put a scope on a rifle. What kind of question is this?

      That *IS* the question though. If the application is one that might call for a rifle, then why are you using the shotgun?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >If the application is one that might call for a rifle, then why are you using the shotgun?
        Hunting with a centerfire rifle at all is illegal in Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maine, and Rhode Island
        I'm pretty sure that creates a strong enough market distortion to fund innovation and production in cope slug guns for years to come

        Shit, look at the much narrower moron legal regime that allows .350 Legend to exist

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sometimes rifles would work fine for a target, but the law assumes your poor judgement of backstops makes it best to limit you to shotguns.

          It makes sense as a workaround for legal frickery.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I really like slug guns ackchually. They just feel like the spiritual successor to big bore muskets of old

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            They're certainly cool. And they're ballistically similar to a Brown Bess, Charleville, or other musket of that era with a similar weight projectile and similar muzzle velocity.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Slug guns aren't even that bad.
          There's a vid on YT I saw of a guy taking a deer with one of those now rare Remington 870 Sabot shooters from about 170yds across a field.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Hunting with a center-fire cartridge is completely legal in Maine. Almost everyone here uses .30-06 exclusively for deer. I don't know where you heard that.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sometimes rifles would work fine for a target, but the law assumes your poor judgement of backstops makes it best to limit you to shotguns.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/HuXjdXj.jpg

      I don't mean shooting slugs at Turkey before some autist starts correcting me

      >shooting slugs at Turkey
      mf over here with an intercontinental ballistic shotgun

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Same reason you'd put a scope on a rifle. What kind of question is this?

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    your eyes suck and, with a rifled barrel, you can shoot further than you can aim with irons

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    You do know that shotguns are still accurate at 100+ yards? Life isn't vidya. And while irons are also still viable at range if your eyes aren't shit, most people have nonperfect vision.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Plenty of reasons for someone to want to see better when shooting within slug range, and even within birdshot range.
    Camouflaged target (eg brown animals)
    Partially obscured target (eg grass)
    Worse than average eyes (eg half of people)

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What's the point of putting a scope on a shotgun again?
    Being able to 360 noscope at point blank range.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    To look at Moxxis rack and Lilith’s ass.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Last time I asked questions about shotgun scopes on /k/, fifteen anons screamed at my ass in anger, telling me to use beads and go frick myself. Leggit I guess, but I still own à 24" rifled barrel shotgun and don't know what optic to put on it.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I snagged this off of eBay but it's an older model that seems harder to get now.
      Leupold makes this as well which seems to be the current generation. https://www.leupold.com/vx-freedom-3-9x40-muzzleloader-ultimateslam-riflescope

      I have the one in pic related mounted on a cantilevered barrel for my 870.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Use beads and frick yourself in the ass with them

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You probably should have explained that it was specifically for a slug gun. This is the exception rather than the rule so it's kinda important to point it out. Scope makes total sense for slugs, especially one that has marks you can use for holdover. Even with a scope slugs have a seriously rainbow trajectory and they aren't much good beyond 150 yards so you clearly don't need high power. LVPO or something like 2-7 or 3-9 would be plenty.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    what are rifled slugs

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    rifled barrels + sabots give near rifle like accuracy (breety good)
    slugs + scope to increase the chance of proper shot placement
    looks cool
    full chokes/ super fullchokes turkey hunting

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    So you can see real good

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