Originally Posted By: Stan
Originally Posted By: volleyfire

Referring back to something mentioned in a previous post:
Several experienced shooters have told me that a cylinder bore 410 had a longer killing range than a cylinder bore 12 gauge. I never tested it, but I take it from your computations they were wrong.


I would ask them to prove it.

SRH


Looking at both cartridges next to one another it's hard to imagine that .410 of equal choke constriction would have longer killing range than even short cased 12ga gun. If one is interested in long range killing and is lucky enough to own modern 12ga I would look at HeviShot load with 7&1/2 size pellets. I believe it is made for upland hunters in mind. The English claimed patters were great longer range. They attributed that to irregular shape of pellets.