I was going thru my safe and came upon my old slug gun. It's an Ithaca Deerslayer with a laminated stock. The unusual thing is that the barrel is a 10ga blank but bored and rifled to 12ga. It's like a bull-barrel slug gun. The barrel is screwed into the receiver for accuracy. I remember the last buck I took with it; a 9-point at 217 yards. This thing would shoot 1 1/2" groups with Winchester sabot slugs. Interesting piece.

Yeah, there is a Youtube video out there of a fellow shooting 2-3 in groups at 225 yds with a similar setup. No different than shooting big bore black powder.

Thanks, I'll have to look it up. Maybe I'll clean it up and sell it....shots from the stands on my property are 40 yards or less.

Always wanted to mess with one of the rifled slug guns but never did, always having lived in rifle-hunt states. Talk about knockdown power!

Bill, here's "the beast" :-)

What a tank barrel! Not a deerslayer II with the factory scope mount on the receiver? A real puzzler.

That's a rail I mounted. The receiver is drilled and tapped. It is a factory stock gun.

The southern half of MN is shotgun. I’ve never seen a shotgun like that one here…

I started my deer hunting by using my waterfowl gun with foster slugs. Never got a deer close enough to take a shot with that.

Brought a rifled shotgun and greatly improved my accuracy but still nothing to write home about. I killed a few deer with it, but finally went on a guided hunt to a rifle state…

The shotgun doesn’t have any real knockdown power- and its accuracy is lacking.

I’ve given up on the shotgun and went to pistol for deer locally. To me, it’s between the two choices. More accurate and better terminal effect than the shotgun, but no where near as easy to shoot accurately as the rifle.

The supposed reason for using shotguns is safety- they won’t hit a house in the background- less range.

We all know that’s a crock. It’s being safe, not which type of weapon.

I have a somewhat similar Ithaca slug gun. It's a Model 87. Walnut stock and standard weight rifled barrel. Like yours the barrel is permanently affixed to the receiver. Accuracy is good for a slug gun. Two inch groups at 100 yds. from a bench.

There was a company that did these conversions back in the late 80's early 90's.

Maybe I will think of it's name.

An anecdote on the model 37. Several years ago, I was in a gun store + the counter help was describing all the virtues of this 12 G. to a man of African descent. He really pressed the issue of the bottom shell ejection, to which this gent says, "So you mean that the empty shells stay in the car?" The clerk says quickly that he was sorry, but that one was already sold.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
There was a company that did these conversions back in the late 80's early 90's.

Maybe I will think of it's name.

Tarhunt?

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Originally posted by Brandon.Gleason:

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
There was a company that did these conversions back in the late 80's early 90's.

Maybe I will think of it's name.

Tarhunt?

Just came across this thread. First thing I thought about was Tarhunt. Building accurate slug shot guns was a thing in the late 80s. Looks like they're still in business. Memory is they made heavy barreled bolt slug guns.