Remembering how much I wanted to graduate from the .410 I started with to a 'real gun', I started my own boys off with a 20ga. It was too much gun for them at the age I started them, especially in the light single shots they were shooting. My grandsons will begin with .410's.

Likewise I have recently and belatedly come to the conclusion that .410 shotguns do actually have a place in the field...Geo