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Please try to sell me one.
I do own a 410 single but rarely use it for anything while I have a twelve gauge readily to hand.
They are expensive to feed factory ammo & I feel very limited to range by the shot sizes, however there is a double for sale nearby & I keep looking at it.

It is only a hundred bucks because it has a missing forend , both iron & wood. I can deal with that as I have another gun the same make but in 12 G that I can copy. Good little project.

I figure that I could load brass shells cheap enough but still don't know if I would really use it much unless I load slugs or buckshot. So why not just keep using the 30 30 for that type of up close work on pigs down in the creek ?
Something is tempting me to give this a go.
O.M

real men can hit anything with a 410.

That doesn't mean it is going to DIE from being hit with the .410. On wild pigs? Stick with the 30-30.
I've managed to avoid having a need for a .410, my whole life.
Good luck with whatever you decide.


Best,
Ted

I like .410�s and began shooting them when I was training my dog on pen-raised birds and using a 12 gauge became boring. The .410�s were effective enough on pen-raised birds that I began using a 36 gauge (.506� bore) muzzle loader on the birds. I found that .410�s with proper chokes and shot sizes are extremely effective for even the average shooter, like I was then back then, out to 25 yards.


The above is my favorite .410 which I had to sell several years ago do to some extreme economic hardship I was going through. I'd love to buy it back but still can't afford to.

Steve

I grew up shooting a .410 as that was the first shotgun my dad gave me many years ago. I will still grab a .410 from time to time as I think they are a neat little bush gun. As far as using it for birds, the wildlife where I am isn't that plentiful to worry about what shells cost. In fact, I bought another .410 double about 2 months ago.

+1, Ted.

I used the .410 for all my shooting needs for about a five year period to get past a nasty flinching problem. I had tired everything. Used middle finger as a trigger finger, pre mount gun, low gun, gas auto, different guns, hypnosis and learned how to shoot left handed. I'm would flinch one out of four shots somedays and nearly shot others. So I went to shooting a .410 for everything for three plus years. 200-500 rounds a week and gradually the flinch went away. Kept shooting the .410 for two extra years and graduated to a 28. After about a decade I can shoot anything from my mighty .410 up to a 10 ga. So sometimes a .410 can be used to fix a shooting problem.

Full disclosure. I could not hunt waterfowl with my mighty .410. I did shoot a few wild quail and more game farm birds. I shot a lot of clay targets. But the .410 is not a do all gun in my hands. Inside 25 yards I am quite good with it and can cleanly kill anything. 25-30-33 yards I can pick my shots. I do shoot a lot of dove with it and set known distance markers so when I say 33 yards I mean it and then only on calm days. Not an estimated 33 yards but a paced off distance. When you measure a 33 yard shot to the bird it becomes a 35-37 yard shot because you shoot up the long side of a triangle.

Most people think a 33 yards shot is 40 plus yards in part because we are lousy at judging distance and partly because they step it off to where the bird is retrieved. They forget to subtract the fall distance after the bird is hit.

I bought my 1st 410 last year at age 56. A Grulla sidelock. Great fun at the skeet range.

I personally don't think any gauge smaller than 20 with less than an 1oz of shot should be used on live game [well maybe squirrels].......if just out wasting time shooting targets...use what you want.......
but once again this is just my opinion...



if I was in a bad mood the above would of been written as...

nothing more ridiculous looking than a 300lb guy holding this 410 or 28ga toothpick and professing that its a magic wand....push away from the buffet table and go buy a real shotgun....or quit hunting....and use your putsy S toothpick only for targets...

once again....free country...do what you want

They're cute.