i heard horror story after horror story about the expense of finding the right slug for your gun.
this year i bought a remington 870 with a cantilever rifled slug barrel. i topped it off with a barska 3x9 IR scope.
i bought 2 boxes of lightfields, 3 boxes of hornady sst, and 3 boxes of brenneke green lightning.
the lightfields and hornadys are sabots and the green lightning have a hard green coating to prevent fouling, they are not sabots.
i called remington, hornady, lightfield and brenneke for advice. all but brenneke told me the same thing i read here, try several different brands and see what your gun likes.
brenneke factory rep for PA told me to buy the green lightning, if it doesnt group he wanted to know why.
at the range, the hornady sst's wouldnt hit the same place twice at 50 yards, the brennekes hit the same place every time. the lightfields were good but not as good as the green lightning.
at 100 yards out of my rifled barrel the green lightnings shoot approx. a 3 inch group, i cleaned the barrel after every 3 or 4 shots, there was no more fouling in my barrel than there is in my 30-06 barrel before cleaning.
save your money on those expensive sabots and get the green lightning slugs for your 870, i just got 7 boxes at kittery trading post (on line) for 52.00. i also got free shipping and no taxes.
this was easy, and the factory rep for brenneke was honest and easy to talk to, he told me the truth from the start and spent a lot of time talking with me.
Brenneke slugs are the only slug used by the alska dept of fish and game for bear and moose.