Alycidon Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Dont bother, you are looking at a gun even using 3 inch carts with an effective range of 20 yards or so. Use a 20 bore or maybe a 28. A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deershooter Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Dont bother, you are looking at a gun even using 3 inch carts with an effective range of 20 yards or so. Use a 20 bore or maybe a 28. A. you obviously do not have much experience with a .410 or are not a very good shot wit one Deershooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 It always amazes me how people make such fantastic claims about what a .410 can do yet the lean pattern cannot possibly result in reliable kills at range and using smaller shot than is usual for any particular prey to try and hold a pattern together is just compounding the problem. We use larger shot for a reason and those reasons still apply for smaller calibres. The truth is, apart from the occasional fluke, that a .410 is a 25yard gun and if you need to kill further out get something that can make a proper job of sending more or bigger shot downrange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 (edited) Very underestimated gauge the .410. Here's a link to a day Bluebarrels and I had on some laid barley. He was using his 20g and I was using the .410. 3" shells, no.6 shot. When we chatted the next day, having counted out the spent cases, we were within a couple of shells of each other. Just over 2-1 http://forums.pigeon... +small +gauges Edited December 9, 2012 by turbo33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stubby Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I think a reason for the negativity on 410's, is that people start expecting them to act as a 12gauge, they are great little guns,lightweight for rough shooting, especially wooded areas, I've even used one behind a blind shooting woodies, its when people start trying to push them beyond their limits, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keano Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 I re-load Mag-tech .410 two and a half inch Brass cases with large pistol primers, 13 grains of Hodgdon H110 powder & 20 grams of number 6 lead shot in a Mossberg pump action stealth. perfect load and quiet enough to use round the farm yard without scaring the **** out of the farm hands! (I use home made 12mm x 5mm cork wads to compress the powder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted October 16, 2019 Report Share Posted October 16, 2019 I wonder if in the last 7 years he got a 410 and a cartridge he liked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted October 16, 2019 Report Share Posted October 16, 2019 I don't think you can go far wrong with no.7/7.5 shot, only problem I have found is that the eley trap I've been using don't like going in or out of the barrel. You can feel the end of the cart isn't smooth as it is say on a fourlong with no6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancer425 Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 On 16/10/2019 at 08:35, welshwarrior said: I wonder if in the last 7 years he got a 410 and a cartridge he liked? Have no idea if he did or not but if he went with a half oz of 7 1/2 shot (buffered) and pushed it with SP3 through a full choke he will be on the right track in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Zut alors!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 6 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Zut alors!!!!!! What has happened to Gordon Bennett these days TC ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Gordon Bennett is having a rest ready for the next part of the Brexit farce! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancer425 Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Wheel out HOLY CARP wile Gordon finishes his brexit. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted October 20, 2019 Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) On 05/12/2012 at 21:12, welshwarrior said: I find the same 2 1/2 7 work best 2 1/2 9s hold a good pattern and I have read an article on the net say he found them best for all game and clays. 9s just seem to small for me I'd be interested if I could find some 8s to test. Did you find or try a 8 shot , i open the crimp pour shot out and swap for the shot you want. Re crimp and enjoy. Edited October 20, 2019 by figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted October 20, 2019 Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 No my 410 died not long after and I bought a 28 bore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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