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What is the 410 good for? What do you use yours for ?
Thanx fellas

The 410 skeet division and that's about it.

Out here, where you and I are, I'd guess Supermag is close.

Back in the Midwest, (like Michigan), I bagged a bazillion rabbits and squirrels and a reasonable, (small, no "illions"), quantity of upland birds, ducks and others critters whose species are best unmentioned.

I still have the same bolt action model as the one I used as a kid and would jump all over a decent new or used SXS, 870 or the like.

Oh, yeah, I bought one for my son when he was 10 and he was a grouse getting machine with it. Now he gets to pass his and mine down to his boys.

I've shot everything from sparrows to fox with a .410. But my favorite use for it is on the skeet range..

You have NO idea how huffy some guys get when you beat their 12 ga's with a .410...

I have a ton of fun doing that..

So for rabbits how far is max and with what load? This is a full choked gun.
Thanx

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House varmint shotgun, quail, rabbits, squirrels etc... The 410 is great to keep you on your game. Practice with a 410 and learn to consistently connect while shooting 5 stand, skeet, or sporting clays and it makes the larger bores easy. When I find myself not centering clays, out comes the 410.

Rabbits, squirrles, skeet, sporting clays and 5 stand. Excellent fun gun.

My Winchester 42 is my second favorite bird gun (dove and quail). Starting to hunt birds seriously with a 410 is like eating your first oyster. You're pretty sure you ain't gonna like it but after a one or two, you can't get enough. Use 2 1/2" shells in #9. That's what they were made to shoot.

What I've got in the shop is 3", #6 Remington Express. Maybe because it was all I could find. Back when I was a youngster it was the same way but but I think we preferred #4 & #5 for furred critters.

Skeet's a blast with the 410 (8 or 9 shot). With my Mossberg bolt (183 DF) I always get the "Do you want singles?" for the first pair. "No" always take away the smirk. FYI it is great practice for hunting season follow up shots if necessary. It has also accounted for MANY rabbits, squirrls, porkies, and coons (4,6,7 1/2's, mostly 3")

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My very first firearm was a Winchester M37 in .410. Still have it and it's in about 90+% condition. I routinely nailed bunnies at 25-30 yards with 3" shells loaded with #6 shot..

For skeet it's 2 1/2" shells w/#9's.. Little noise, little recoil, and cheap...

thanx fellas

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Long live the pee wee!!!!!!!

I just can not believe how flippin' expensive ammo is!!!!

LMAO... Yep. That's why I bought about 2,000 hulls several years ago, a reloader and wads for the .410. Costs me about $3.00/box to reload 'em..

That MEC has paid for itself about 10 times over..

With lead being so high now, it's probably more like $3.75/box to reload now, but I bought a ton (literally) of shot about two years ago for $10.75/25# bag so I'm good for a few years yet.. I think I still have about half of it left..

410 and 28 gauge shells are about the only thing it pays to reload anymore because shot has gotten so high.

no shee-at!

Another excellent reason to hit garage sales and auctions.

So long as you stay down south there.

I`ve shot a lot of woodcock, grouse, and rabbits over dogs, and hounds, using 410`s in the woods of the N.East. I use mostly 7 1/2 shot in a three inch shell. I don`t like the bigger shot because it drives the fur and feathers too far into the meat. In NW Wy. I use 2 1/2 shells with #9 shot to shoot an occasional Ruff. They don`t fly worth a hoot out here. Cottontails are taken with either a 22 hand gun or my mod. 61, in front of the hounds.