Years back I did a little reading about the DIANA SOCIETY, they were a bench rest shooting group that used shotguns with slugs as their choice of firearm. Another group is the American Slug Shooting Association, these groups might be able to offer you some more insight on the subject. Tar-Hunt makes a bolt action rifled slug gun that is amazingly accurate. When I first read about these, they were designed for tactical use, the concept was to give pinpoint accuracy to a weapon that would not only kill someone holding a weapon on a hostage, but the force of the slug impact would knock them down/away from the situation.
Many years back I read a piece in a Gun Digest about a guy using a 12 gauge slug gun as his elk gun. He claimed in the story about using this gun out as far as 250 yards. A 12 gauge slug is a bad-ass round, they're better now than they've ever been. The 12 gauge is 72 caliber, 20 gauge is 62 caliber, in the middle 16 gauge is 65 caliber. Many years back I was in a local sporting goods store and they had a stack 28 gauge slugs (58 Caliber), I've never seen any more since then. With the right gun and the right load, there probably isn't anything that can't be hunted with a slug gun. Game officers in Alaska carry them for protection against large bears, I read somewhere that even a few elephants have been killed with 12 gauge slugs.
Many years back I read a piece in a Gun Digest about a guy using a 12 gauge slug gun as his elk gun. He claimed in the story about using this gun out as far as 250 yards. A 12 gauge slug is a bad-ass round, they're better now than they've ever been. The 12 gauge is 72 caliber, 20 gauge is 62 caliber, in the middle 16 gauge is 65 caliber. Many years back I was in a local sporting goods store and they had a stack 28 gauge slugs (58 Caliber), I've never seen any more since then. With the right gun and the right load, there probably isn't anything that can't be hunted with a slug gun. Game officers in Alaska carry them for protection against large bears, I read somewhere that even a few elephants have been killed with 12 gauge slugs.