I would like to take a moment to introduce our Association to you. ASSA is a National organization promoting shotgun slug accuracy competitions and working to advance the state of the art where shotgun slug accuracy and range are concerned. We are in our sixth year of operation, and have seen steady membership growth from the beginning, with over 850 current Association Members, of whom about half have also signed on as ASSA Forums members.

At this time we are working on methods of bringing more traffic to our site and encouraging more people to take up the slug shooting competition discipline to improve their skills and hopefully get the niche of target shooting slugs to grow a bit. We are working on the optimistic assumption that we may someday reach the size of the SASS Cowboy Action Shooting clubs, since we offer the same kind of fun with guns, and don’t make anyone dress up in Cowboy outfits to join in……….

One method of growth we are considering is to approach the experts such as yourselves for permission to post reprints of some of your old articles on slugshooting or related subjects on a “Guest Author” page on our website, so our members can share your unique insights and gain some knowledge that they otherwise would not obtain. The arrangement on the “Guest Author” page would be a short biography of the author followed by a full or edited article from past publications. This is open to all comers, so I expect we’ll get a number of folks wanting to have an article about their latest hog hunt published, which is fine with us, as long as there was a shotgun and some slugs involved somewhere.

We have already found a few outdoors writers who were feeling charitable when we contacted them, and the program launch is underway. ( You can visit the first Guest Author Page featuring outdoor writer Dave Henderson on our website right now, to see what YOUR page might look like) We have agreed in these cases to append the articles with links to their book sales sites etc., so there is at least some potential for the exercise to be useful as more than just publicity. I was curious to know if you might want to participate in this?

The Guest Author invitation is extended not solely to professional outdoors writers, but also to any one of you with a tale to tell that relates in some way to what we do at ASSA. Got the gift of gab, and maybe pictures too? Send your article in and if it doesn’t put us to sleep, there’s a good chance you will get published.

By the way, it might interest you to know our group was the subject of a very nice article in the November issue of Field and Stream Magazine, which is a source of great pride for us.

Best Regards,

William Davis
President
American SlugShooting Association
PO Box 321
White Marsh, Maryland 21162
410-529-6631
SlugShooter@aol.com
OIG@slugshooting.com

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I just purchased a SAVAGE 210F rifled bolt-action 12 gauge. It is set up with a BUSHNELL DUSK TO DAWN 3-9-40 scope. I also have rings with 4 screws per ring for clamping force. My brother has re-free floated the stock. I plan on using HORNADY SST sabot slugs and have added 4 lbs to the buttstock.
My question is this..advertised barrel length is 24.. but it says rifling is only 1 in 20.5 inches. If this is true…what kind of accuracy/groups can I expect from this 10-12 lbs slug gun? Please e-mail me with any information you might find. (Was hoping for 200 yards or greater.)

I live in Michigan and fire-arm deer season is November 15th.
10-8-08

I’m not sure who he is or if he’s going to be a regular contributer, but Accurate Slug Shooting Made Easy by Michigan Slugger over at The Firearm Blog is a great first post. Go check it out…….