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I was wondering, is it safe/possible to shoot sabot slugs from a smoothbore 870 with an extended rifled choke. Shooting Sabot Slugs With a Rifled Choke??
Percussion caps (invented in 1805 but heretofore little used) now replaced flints, but the basic weapon remained a smoothbore musket.
I've hunted game from rabbit to elk with flintlock rifles and smoothbores with great success and satisfaction.
Guns November issue featured a review of two very fine smoothbore flintlocks by Caywood Gunmakers.
I was interested in a flintlock smoothbore typical of the French and Indian War period.

In the firearms field, flintlock smoothbore muskets gave way to percussion-capped, rifled muskets.
Over his saddle lay a "kaross," or robe of leopard-skins, and upon his shoulder he carried his "roer" -- a large smoothbore gun, about six feet in length, with an old-fashioned flint-lock, -- quite a load of itself. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance.
When a flintlock guy jumped on board with me, I gave him grief because his newfangled peice was "rifled", not a smoothbore like mine. The Gun Nut Survey: A highly biased, unofficial poll of 2,000 readers on all things shooting
Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance.
Which proves, yet again, that the male of the species is at his weakest when attempting spot psychology, and should stick to resawing lumber and swabbing smoothbore rifles. Outfoxed Diary Entry