can you shoot lead slugs through a rifled barrel
DPris. January 11, 2010, 12:14 PM. You CAN shoot lead shot through a rifled barrel without damaging it, BUT you'll pick up plastic shot cup residue in the rifling and the rifling will destroy patterning to the point of uselessness beyond 15 or so yards.n a rifled shotgun barrel, although there are still many who use lead slugs, probably the majority of shooters nowdays are using sabots. Sabots are a conventional bullet encased in a plastic drop-away sleeve.