While many consider the 410 a kids gun, I have learned it is more of a show offs gun.
Which might explain its allure .
Yep, folks are pretty impressed when I use one on an armadillo or skunk out the back door. Sometimes I even open the screen first.
I did start out as a kid with a .410. If I remember right, it was the first gun I ever had. It was also my Dads first gun. My grandparents paid me a bounty on every rabbit I shot out of the garden and every snake around the hen house. Made enough to keep buying shells. As a kid growing up on a farm in a target rich environment, it was safer than a 22 and probably more effective. But, I was pretty much a show off even as a snot nosed kid, so I guess it fit. Spent much of my other shooting with my grandpa's 12ga and a bunch of 16ga slugs. The slugs would fire, but with a lot of gas escaping so the slug was slow enough to see, like a fast BB gun. Have to use a rod to knock out the split shell after each shot. The good ole days of unsupervised kids and guns.
