Shotgun slug reloading.

[Blighty]

I’m eyeing up a Sect 1 Maverick with a rifled slugster barrel. Does anyone reload for these and what is the component availability like at the moment?

[Chapuis]

I take it not for use in the U.K. then?

[Blighty]

Slightly confuddled then. Gun has fore and rear sight and after googling found what I thought it was.

Let’s start again. Anyone reload slugs and if so what is the availability of components?

[Chapuis]

You mentioned a rifled barrel. Not permitted on a pump or semi auto in the U.K. as that would make it a section 5.

[X2001xr]

propellent can be found
1oz slug (might want to cast your own)
shotgun primers are about
shells I've never purchased new. I know you can reuse some

just ensure that you have authority to possess 12ga slug on your FAC prior to assembly of the above.

[Blackstuff]

Having had to recently restock my slug reloading provisions I'd say the availability of components is good now, or at least significantly better than the last 3 years. Powder has been the most difficult to put hands on from my own experience. Everything has doubled/tripled in price. I was able to reload my own slugs for £4.50 a box, now its more like £9.50. Thats still 50% of RRP though so still well worth doing.

However as Chapuis has said, you cannot legally own a pump or semi-auto shotgun with a rifled barrel. AFAIK there is no such thing as a Section 1 Maverick with a rifled barrel, only Section 5.

Some guns are marketed as having 'slug' barrels for rifled slugs, this generally just means they have a set of sights on the barrel, as opposed to a plain bead. 'Rifled slugs' aren't really a thing. The spiralled fins on them are to allow them to pass through chokes more easily and do little to impart any kind of meaningful spin on the slug.