cheapest silenced 410

[washerboy]

I have a job to clear some rabbits, 12 bore is too loud and will scare horses on both sides of field.

What's a cheap silenced 410?

[team tractor]

Just use an air rifle as you get 45+ yards range against 25 ish with a 410 .

I recently sold my baikel hushpower .410 for £200

[aga man]

this place do a detachable silencer for 1 hundred notes if you can get a 410 for 50 or 60 quid i reckon thats as cheap as you can do it.

www.saddleryandgunroom.co.uk

Edited May 11, 2013 by aga man

[robbiep]

I'd agree with Agaman : my Webley/Scott .bolt action .410 was £70. Detachable silencer for £100, or you can get a 'fixed' one for about £60 or 70. The website appears to be down right now though.

[aga man]

I'd agree with Agaman : my Webley/Scott .bolt action .410 was £70. Detachable silencer for £100, or you can get a 'fixed' one for about £60 or 70. The website appears to be down right now though.

could be my typing mate as having beer. try this www.saddleryandgunroom.co.uk

[robbiep]

It wasn't your link - for some reason, I just couldn't get onto their site at all at the time.

It's up again now though. The 'fixed' type is actually £57 inc VAT, about 3/4 of the way down this webpage

http://www.saddleryandgunroom.co.uk/Gunroom/SG_Hushpower.htm

If I was going to get one, I'd probably be going for the detachable though, just so that I can change back to 'normal' if need be.

 

A couple of things to bear in mind : The 'proper' Eley subsonic .410 carts are only available in 3". Quite a few guns are 2.5" chambers, so something you would need to consider. They only recommend fibre carts, so you are restricted to Eley there too.

[washerboy]

looks like its an airgun job, unless i can get payment ....doubt it but you never no

[bicykillgaz]

I'd just use a shotgun, I shoot some horse paddocks and once you've fired your first shot or two they barely react, just tend to stand staring in your direction. I wouldn't use one near stabled horses though but open paddocks are fine. Just my experience.

[moorvale55]

Try the Baikal Hushpower, brand new they are £325.00, (in my dealers shop), they take a 3" cartridge but the cartridge needs to have a fibre wad. If you get one put around 50 shots down it before using it in anger, they get quieter with use.

[HDAV]

If you can find one a bretton Gaucher phantom single shot BA 3" chambers, also try a box of 12g subsonic carts before spending loads on a .410

[scutt]

airguns ok on static targets but rabbits wise up when you are taking them from the same area all the time they hear the thud on impact and the others run off it's the same with a moderated rimfire A 410 can take them bolting on a walk about or bolted by ferrets .What I am saying is if its a large number of rabbits then you will probably need to employ more than one way to deal with them .found baikial hushpower with eley fourlongs very effective around young stock housed in the farm yard.rats pigeons and crows all fall to the little 410 if within range as stated new £325 ish but noted that a lot of folk bought one of these when they were the flavour of the month and I think they don't have a real need for them and so they come up for resale at a better second hand price So if you decide you will make good use of one then it might pay you to keep an eye on the second hand market.

[washerboy]

i have other ways but dont want to snare or trap them, people could be about first thing in the morning or while im at work.

i can lamp them, infact anyway to get rid of them.

[jackinbox99]

Another point is that the hushpower .410`s hold their value really really well. If you look at the for sale section, you`ll see they normally are around the £250 mark for a baikel or pedretti one. Sometimes one comes along slightly cheaper, but not far off. So, you could easily buy one, use it for your job, then sell it back on and probably not loose a penny on it.

 

Ive the mossberg 3 shot pump action version and its a handy tool. Noise wise, not as quiet as a PCP air rifle, and it took some getting used to the point of aim on it. In practice, out in the field I tend to use my air rifle more as it seems quieter and I find it easier to get accurate shots on the rabbits - no use of course if they are bolting or if i fancy getting a flying over pigeon too.