A 12 gauge in an H&R slug gun is, well, it's pretty stout. They did put a pretty good recoil pad on most of them so that helps. The savage to me had close to same recoil. So it's more if want a single shot or do you want one that hold something like three. We see the H&R's and New England slug guns for sale all the time. They were very popular because of their price/accuracy.
This^^^^^ recoil is stout but manageable. Mine lives the Hornady 300 grain SST's. @2000 fps. It packs a punch and is accurate out to 100 yards. That's the furthest I have shot at paper!!
My son Joe uses a 20ga Mossberg 500 with a cantilever scope mount. Rifled barrel, shooting Winchester Platinum Sabots( which really are 240gr JHP's). Man he can keep them in a coffee cup at 100yds. Everything he has shot with it has been DRT.
Is it the single shot that interests you or the heavy projectile?
I'm very happy with my USH in 12ga. Bought it from another TBHer years ago. He had a trigger job done. And weight added to the stock. Gun weighs in at 11.5 lbs with my 4-12x42 on top of it. And shoots lights out with standard velocity Rem Copper Solids. I've also got an original Mossburg 835 that I bought back in 1991. And bought a matching camo Trophy Hunter slug barrel for it as well. It likes the Winchester Partitions.
I've been shooting and hunting with slugs since the late 1970s.
A couple more bolt action slug guns you might want to look into are the Marlin 512 in 12ga. And the Browning A-Bolt in 12ga. There are a ton of configuring models by various mfgs if you really look into it.
I own and absolutely love my H&R ultra slug hunter. It’s heavey as heck. But it shoots dang good. I can shoot a 2-2.5” group @ 100 no problem. 300 grain sst slug @ 2000fps is awsome.
The closest thing to the H&R and as cheap as you can get into the good shooting 20 Sabot game is the CVA Hunter model CR5805. It does the job very well.
Even if a person doesn’t want to buy the stainless/synthetic 220 Savage, get the blued one.
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