what the heck are these 2.5" Remington .410 slugs good for ???

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Magnum Wheel Man

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When I combined my shooting stuff, along with my father in laws, after he died, I had lots of stuff to sort through... not being as much of a shotgun guy, the shot shell stuff was the last to really get a going over... I'm not sure if my father in law had all these, or if they came when I bought out all the ammo the local hardware store had, several years ago, when they quit selling guns & ammo... but now

I have 10-15 boxes of Remington 2.5" .410 slugs... at ( I think ) 1/5 ounce slugs, they probably pack less punch than my 32 H&R magnum... so what are they good for ( suggested use ??? the deer up here are IMO, generally too big to shoot with that light a slug )
 
  • Use them in a Judge for light target practice.
  • Squirrel control
  • Teaching young 'uns and little ladies to shoot
  • Sell them on Gunbroker as "low noise, low recoil" self defense rounds for those that bought the Taurus Judge and tried full power loads in it.
  • Paperweights

:DJoat:p
 
The 2 1/2" 410 shells are good for derringers and the lever action shotguns not capable of shooting the 3" shells. The slug is 1/5 oz @ 1830 fps. This works out to 650 ft. lbs. ME.

That puts it in the .357 or 10mm category. Nothing to sneeze at. Defiantly a lot more than a .32 mag. Some like them because they have a fairly flat trajectory out to 75 yards or so. I wouldn't try them at ranges past that.

I have a bunch of them for my winchester 9410. I wouldn't feel under gunned for short range woods hunting of deer with them. At 1/5 oz they won't be the greatest penetrators but they should get the job done.
 
Here is a ballistics table on slugs ( from 12ga to .410 )

http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/ballistics/shotshell_slug_loads.asp

and you're right, those 1/5oz slugs in the .410 have some energy out to about 25 yards is all - and then out to 50 yards it really drops off...
I'm not saying it hasn't been done - but I wouldn't recommend shooting a deer with these old style .410 slugs.

Now there is a new .410 slug on the market -with much better balistics / but I don't frankly see any point to them either.

Like you're doing / I've cleaned out closets, etc when relatives passed away and found a truly interesting mix of ammo laying around. I can assure you - more than one relative of mine killed deer because they were eating things out of the garden .. and maybe 15 yards or less off the back porch when grandma was complaining .... A .410 slug wouldn't upset the neighbors / like a .30-06 might ... / who knows...
 
:D lol...

actually I've been doing a table at the local gun show ( mid winter ) I don't sell guns, but stuff like this, so I'll probably keep a good clean box for collecting, & sell the rest...

unless someone can think of a good reason to go out & shoot a few... I wonder how they'd do in the rifled Contender barrel with the straightening choke removed ??? hmm... maybe I'll keep 2 boxes, just to have one to shoot ???
 
The "perfect" job for them is as a shark dispatcher. People who fish for (and boat) big sharks need something to kill them with before bringing them on board. A great weapon for this is a cheap single-shot .410 that has both the barrel and stock cut down to barely legal lengths. Just put the barrel up against the sharks head and the little slug does its job without heavy recoil.
 
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