Originally Posted By: billt460
I have a Hastings rifled barrel for my Remington 870. But get this, it has STRAIGHT rifling. It is meant for Trap shooting. The concept behind it is to prevent the wad from spinning, thereby allowing a cleaner separation of the wad from the shot column.
Does it do what it's supposed to? From what I can tell, yes. It delivers nice concentrated patterns at 35 yards on paper. But as an added plus, I found it shoots Foster type slugs very accurately as well. I doubt these barrels are available any more. But it does work well. Mine is a 30" ventilated rib model with 2 beads and adjustable chokes.
They still make that barrel for the 870, and for other guns too. They are wad lock barrels.