I've been wanting a Mossberg 500 .410 for some time now. Everytime I'm in my LGS, I pick it up and play with it. Seems like it would be a fun gun for small game. The ONLY reason I haven't gotten it yet is because I haven't seen any lead ammo except buckshot. Would hate to buy a gun and not find decent ammo.
I've had several .410's over the years. They work OK on rabbits/squirrels with lead loads if you don't need to shoot much past 25 yards. Every time I hear somebody say they're a good squirrel gun I think they must not have very tall timber where they hunt. They won't reliably drop squirrels out of the top of a 100 foot hickory when you're standing at the bottom of the tree. BTDT dozens of times with full choke .410's and various 2.5 and 3" shells loaded with #6 and 7.5 lead shot and results are less than satisfactory. I don't mess with the little toy pop guns anymore. My shoulder ain't that tender and I have no problem carrying around the weight of a real shotgun all day.
