My first deer, at fourteen years old, was taken at around 50 yards with my grandfathers DHE 28" bored modified and full. I did a lot of target work on paper with that gun before I used it on deer. It held a decent group with both barrels to 60 yards. I was surprised at how well that gun shot with slugs. I killed many other deer with that gun before I bought a Remington 870 with a slug barrel. My experience with the many deer I have killed with slugs is that unless you hit them in the chest straight on so the slug travels most of the length of the body, hit the spine or neck, most will run about 50 yards before piling up, assuming a lung or heart hit. Actually they travel a bit further with a heart hit for some reason. I have used many different guns with slugs including 12 bore, 16 bore and 20 bore. I find the results from all gauges to be about the same.
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