I've always wanted to take a deer with a slug gun. So I bought one back in May and was able to put it to the test. I took this buck at 181 yds, using Hornady's 300gr SST slugs. Hit him behind the shoulder, I think he knocked his front teeth out slamming to the ground. Sounded like baseball bat hitting a water melon! Awesome experience!

That's awesome!

My buddy that i Elk hunt with, hunts whitetails in Illinois, that is all they can hunt with!

Awesome. Congrats on a great buck and even better with a slug gun.

Amy pics of the damage?

Mixing up your firearms does make it fun. Good job!!!!

I was wondering the same thing...do a bunch of damage (expansion or tumbling) or just punch a big hole....

Regardless, nice buck with a nice gun.....

The entry was a big hole but the exit was massive! I didn't take any pictures but it was bigger than a golf ball for sure.

Please, please pardon my ignorance- but,is it buckshot that you use as ammo?
Sorry, not familiar with this. But I had customers tell me that they had to hunt deer in Michigan with shotguns.

using Hornady's 300gr SST slugs

Wow! Nice deer, nice gun and nice shooting! Congratulations.

That's poke with a slug! Awesome job. Love acorn on the tine. Congrats. How far do you think you could actually take a shot at and be effective. You passed what some can do with a rifle. Lol

Very cool. Nice buck, congrats.

That's pretty cool, I had no idea slugs were effective at that range, thought 100yds was about the max

That's about what I thought...100 yards. But 181???? That;s pretty dang impressive!
And congrats!

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Congrats on a very nice buck. I too purchased a New England Single shot twenty guage several years ago to hunt on public land. I had to play around with it but it gets less than two inch groups at 100 yards. They have really come along way with slug guns.

Thats a long way for a slug. Congrats.

The scope is a Nikon for slug guns and matches the Hornady ballistics perfectly. It has the BDC out to 200 yards. The gun is Remington 11-87 and I'm getting 4 inch groups at 200 yds. Now, I don't know if that's good or not. I used the 200 yds marking in the scope and hit him a little high behind the shoulder(first pic you can see the high hit). I was shooting off a trigger stick out of pop up blind. I don't take credit for the shot it was the gun/scope/ammo combo. I wouldn't hesitate to take any shot out to 200 yds.

Dang long shot for a slug, congrats and guess slug guns have come along way over the years, { as I've hear they had }. Truly impressed. Way to go!!!!

Impressive shot and buck!