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Anybody but me like dragging out an old break open 410 single shot for a walk in the woods? Have an old Iver Johnson that belonged to a long dead friend that will be going with me in the morning, maybe a pheasant or quail but at least some cottontails. Get the urge to drag one around about Thanksgiving for about the last 50 years Russ

Cut my teeth with a New England Arms break action .410. Fine hand-rubbed tung finish like only a 12yo could have mustered. It's still working now as the woman's barn gun, 3-inch #6's, a menace to opossums and snakes.

I tried really hard to find one.

Settled on a Mossberg pump.

Would still like to find one.

My grand dad always had one on the back porch, he used to take it under the house to shoot rattlesnakes.

Don't know where it is now, hope one of the cousins has it....

I have several 410's including an 11-48 skeet but it is just something about an old break open

I went to a local gun shop several years ago to find a .410 break open. I was looking down the used shotgun rack and saw a .410 barrel poking out so I picked it up. It was an old Iver Johnson. The metal is dark brown but there's no rust on it. It's still very tight.

The furniture is walnut and in very good condition. It's got a long barrel and a man sized length of pull. I don't know exactly when it was made but I looked into it as much as possible and determined that it was pre 1937 due to the shape of the forestock.

The price was $75.

I wouldn't take that for it.

I want to buy one or something cheaper so I can hand it to Lt. Powell and see if can drop doves with it from the hip. I mean, it must be his high grade gun doing it.

We have an old single shot Iver Johnson, in .410. It is a family gun the gets used every year for squirrels. The current users are my kids, who are 8 and 12. Great old shotgun!

I have a Stevens I got from a brother-in-law. I had to replace the ejector but it shot fine after that.

I've got a near mint Stevens 94 .410, '70s vintage, that came in on consignment at work a few years back. I "needed" a single barrel .410 like I needed women trouble, but for $100, I couldn't let it go. I take it out about once a year and shoot a couple squirrels with it. It's like going back to my childhood when I used my very first shotgun, a very similar model in 20ga that sadly was stolen 16 years ago.

LOL....you didn't think I would see this did you? A shotgun ain't nuthin but a pipe you point at stuff.

i have a spanish 410 full choke that is the only thing i take for grouse here. seems to poke through the brush and smack them down. walking the skid trails and overgrown logging roads with it and my labs is just about as good as it gets.

my old Iver Johnson is also one of the old ones with the slim fore end, gave a 94 to my best friend for his grandson born last year. Belonged to an old man that lived next to my wife and I for a long time and one day when I was mowing his grass he asked me if I wanted it

Shot my first Duck with and old break open 3" single shot.
Cheers NC

shot my first deer with a model 24 savage 22/410. 2.5 inch slug. 54 deer ago!

I have a H&R Model 1915 that's been in the family since my dad was a wee lad.

2 1/2" shells only , this little shotgun was made before the 3" 410 was invented.

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Mike

Mine is an old Crescent Arms. It sits in a hanger next to the door

Carried one for years. My favorite is a Winchester 1950's model. I killed enough squirrel to fill an 8' pickup truck bed with it. It has a really tight choke and can really reach out there.
Used it for rabbit behind my beagles as well. It is deadly.

H&R Topper - Dad sold the .32 Colt he had carried when he was town marshal in a small town and bought it for me. I shot my first pheasant with it (2 1/2" Remington #5 shot) as well as others before "moving up". I still have it.

Did you look under the house?