36 gauge 410
- Thread starter warzaw
- Start date
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
Same as I found out back in me youth with the El Faisan 410 sxs Dad got me fer Xmas. The gun that quickly turned me off of flying objects
and fer critters tougher built than rabbits, rats & squirrels inside 20 yds or so.
A couple years after, I sold that one and got a Cooey M84 12 ga that I had way better results with though she was a booter high brass
Imperials. The 410 be an experts gun fer sure, not fer folks starting out with.
I only shoot them on the ground with the rimfires. I use the 410 for shooting into the trees. I just couldn't find a picture of my 410 with a squirrel. The 22 shows the size of the squirrels in my areaThat is a novel set up to harvest tree rats with no safety hazards that you get with a 22 rimfire shooting up into trees.
You only need to hit a clay with a couple of #9 pellets to reliably break it, and #9 shot produces an adequate pattern to 25 yards or so to accomplish that. When hunting game birds, I step up to at least #7-1/2 for ruffed grouse and Huns, and #6 for sharptails and pheasant, and that leaves a sparse pattern at even 25 yards. I have killed hundreds of upland birds with the 28 gauge, and I feel very comfortable to 35-40 yards with the 28 gauge, but I would never even attempt to shoot a sharptail or pheasant at 35-40 yards with a 410.To funny if you can run 75 straight with the 410 you really don't need to shoot any larger gauge, The small gauge is a lot of fun that is my point not always ideal but always fun. A lot of us old coots grew up messing with that little gauge.
I agree never said that you should. Bigger is always better if want to kill something at that distance and the 10 gauge is the king of the long shot.
