what's a .410 good for (new hunter)?
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I agree with the one above who post the very best pictures in CGN. The .410 is very much a marginal, close range, small game gun. I have no experience or know anyone who have, in using .410 slugs against deer.
Get a better hunting gun for the next hunting season, like the very inexpensive, ten shooter, .303 British Lee-Enfield rifle that even with open sight, will knock down anything up to moose and elk.
Get a better hunting gun for the next hunting season, like the very inexpensive, ten shooter, .303 British Lee-Enfield rifle that even with open sight, will knock down anything up to moose and elk.
I actually consider a .410 to be more suitable for use by experienced and skilled hunters. It has a small payload, and throw thin patterns. Having said that, ground sleucing grouse and stationary rabbits should be ok at close range.
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Small game/birds for sure. If deer is your intended game, go with a bargain 30-30 or something like that. H&R and others make the single shot a good buy.
Frank
Frank
I have a 410, I am not the greatest hunter or best shot, but the 410 forces you to take the right shot. I would say practise with it, I have had my brother toss clay birds for me to get me ready for the small pattern and short range, you really need to know the gun and the pattern. I have used mine on rabbit and grouse, cottontail are easy to kill, snowshoe hares at close range are fine too, please do not try to shoot jack rabbits with a 410, they are hard to kill. The 410 also works well getting rid of pigeons and crows on a friends farm but again range is limited. Have fun with it, I would actually tell you to move up to a 20 gauge or my favourite the sweet 16 and get some confidence shooting before going down to the 410, I am still working on it.
Good luck
Good luck
if all your after is small game at close range (rabbit grouse etc) you'll be fine
but if you want some meat in your freezer get yourself a bubbaed 303 enfield
you can usually pick them up here for under 200 and they are acurrate out to 200 yrds
i use a bubba'd 303 for all my hunting from deer to bear to moose without flaw or failure
but if you want some meat in your freezer get yourself a bubbaed 303 enfield
you can usually pick them up here for under 200 and they are acurrate out to 200 yrds
i use a bubba'd 303 for all my hunting from deer to bear to moose without flaw or failure
Thanks for all the replies. I should have specified that I was not contemplating taking deer with a .410. My question was focused more on smaller game.
Also with regard to roadwarrior's question the shotgun is a singleshot.
Also with regard to roadwarrior's question the shotgun is a singleshot.
If you are hunting grouse and you've got a shotgun in your hands, you are obligated as a fair chase hunter to shoot them on the wing. And a .410 in inexperienced hands is just going to be frustrating. Especially a single shot.
You have some options. Head to the skeet range or a gravel pit next summer, and spend a lot of time and money getting good with the most difficult 'gauge' shotgun to shoot. Lessons will be mandatory. Another option is to find a cheap, used, s/s 20 gauge gun and see that it gets a very open choke. You will be able to hit targets easier and learn wingshooting faster this way, so the money you save on .410 shells will buy you that 20 gauge gun.
But by all means go out and hunt! You will very soon see that shooting grouse on the ground is no challenge. The excitement and love of grouse hunting begins with the flush. When they burst out of nowhere with wings thundering, your heart stops and your eyes dart everywhere trying to find a streaking brown bomb through the branches. If you can see it you can try to get off a shot, but more often than not you'll miss! On with the chase, as you head off in the direction the bird went, your heart pounding, hopefully to get another flush and a shot. I'll take 10 flushes and 10 misses over a single shot at a bird on the ground any day.
But take warning; once you're hooked, you're hooked.
Grouse Man
You have some options. Head to the skeet range or a gravel pit next summer, and spend a lot of time and money getting good with the most difficult 'gauge' shotgun to shoot. Lessons will be mandatory. Another option is to find a cheap, used, s/s 20 gauge gun and see that it gets a very open choke. You will be able to hit targets easier and learn wingshooting faster this way, so the money you save on .410 shells will buy you that 20 gauge gun.
But by all means go out and hunt! You will very soon see that shooting grouse on the ground is no challenge. The excitement and love of grouse hunting begins with the flush. When they burst out of nowhere with wings thundering, your heart stops and your eyes dart everywhere trying to find a streaking brown bomb through the branches. If you can see it you can try to get off a shot, but more often than not you'll miss! On with the chase, as you head off in the direction the bird went, your heart pounding, hopefully to get another flush and a shot. I'll take 10 flushes and 10 misses over a single shot at a bird on the ground any day.
But take warning; once you're hooked, you're hooked.
Grouse Man
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hahahahahaha dont make me lafftodbartell said:
try 30 ft not 30 yards!!!!!!!
personaly the .410 is usless 20 ga should be the min for a beginer preferebly bigger ive read and witnest the 410s extreem under power and lack of pellets i shot a grouse 5 times with a 410 my freind ownd i could see the pellets bounsing off
and this was at about 25 yards. i had to get about 10ft away to realy do damage.the only real use is shooting Rats in your barn or house..... not much nose or damage.
talk to ya all later
Riley
