Lyman 525 Still Amazes

The Lyman 525 is my go to home rolled slug that I initially used with my Savage 210 F rifled slug gun. I got more that satisfactory results with this combination.
I picked up a 20 in. rifled barrel for an older 870 that we had (when they still made them right) and my number one son used that during our shotgun/muzzleloader season when we did midday pushes. Number two son had to use the 30 in. smoothbore that a Mossberg 500 wore, that is until now. I picked up a 24 in. rifled ported cantilevered barrel for that gun and decided to try to sight it in recently. I originally put a red dot sight on the gun but was dissatisfied with it at the range during bright sunlight, I could barely see the dot on max. illumination so I stuck on a cheapo Weaver 4X Challenger scope I had kicking around.
The initial sight in at 25 yrds. just about floored me, not only was I on paper , I darn near hit the bull ( no boresighting or anything).
I moved out to 100 yrds and after raising the point of impact high and left I proceeded to try for a 100 yrd group.
The load was the Lyman slug wax filled base, WW components, hull, 12AAR wad with a fiber disc under the wad and 32 grs. of Herco.
The final volley yielded under 2 in. group.
Im sure better optics would even improve things more.

25 yrd.
https://i.imgur.com/HP8gae0.jpg

100 yrd. first attempt
https://i.imgur.com/tp4Wxvl.jpg

100 yrd. final
https://i.imgur.com/teldj22.jpg

That 2nd 100 yard group looks very nice!

Are those soft lead slugs or WW, range scrap?

Longbow

Alas, someone else who figured out the Lymans! Here’s a 100 yd target spot with no wind...
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Here’s one in a 15-20 mph left to right crosswind at 100 and 125 yds...
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Here are a couple of hogs that got in the way of a Lyman at 75 and 100 yds...
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Smokeete - Nice shooting! You've got the 525 figured out!

Hogtamer - Shouldn't we be calling you "Hogslayer by know? LOL! :bigsmyl2:

Hogtamer: Do you have a load for that that works in 2 3/4 shells? GF

Yes sir, that’s all I use. Never could get the 3” right.
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...5-for-Boomer81

How would these behave in a smooth bore? I've yet to try my hand at slugs.

Not very good. The Lee 7/8 key drive slug is the better choice.Attachment 284831 This was about 65 yds with that slug out of a cylinder bore 870