Just bought my first .410 with plans to use it for an occasional quail hunt. Tried the little gun last week and it was frustrating at best. My success on pointed birds was 47%. The chokes are way too tight for 20 - 25 yard shots. Many birds shredded when hit. Looking at some barrel/choke work before I try it again on birds. Any suggestions from you quail hunters would be appreciated.
Dennis
I posted the following recently on the Upland Journal website
http://www.uplandjournal.com/ under a thread titled .410 Choke constrictions. Heres what I posted.
About eight years ago I was using .410s mainly for pheasant hunting at an Illinois put & take hunting area. Experimenting with several .410 SXSs I found shooting 7.5 shot through cyl/mod chokes to be very effective as long as I kept my shots under 30 yards. The other day, after I found my 16 needing repairs, I went quail hunting with a SXS .410 that I hadnt yet opened the full chokes on. However, I knew from patterning it that at about 25 yards the pattern opened up just fine and I shot several quail with it. Reading that entire thread, along with researching .410 work done by Chuck H and others on this board will answer any and all your questions. If youre really interested in .410s the British
http://www.fourten.org.uk/ website also has good information.
BTW as for referring members to other websites, Ive referred the readers at the Upland Journal website to the Doublegunshop website many times over. After all, we're here to learn from and help each other.
Steve
From the Department of Redundancy Department. Dang Dennis! It just dawned on me, you're the fellow who I posted the above response to on the other board. Apparently, I need more coffee!
