Who here LOVES .410's???

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I've been sitting out in my barn playing my mandolin and every so often I see a rat. Maybe my music charms them, idk. But I just keep my .410 Mossberg bolt action nearby for rats and such.
This recent rat kill has reminded me of how great the .410 is for pest control. I grew up hunting with one and have always had a soft spot for them.
So who else here uses a .410 around the farm/property?
Any fond memories of growing up shooting .410's? :)
 
Started hunting with my grandfathers H&R .410. Took a lot of rabbits, sparrows, starlings,snakes and bottles with it.

My cousin, who still has the gun, has started his grandson on the old shotgun. If all goes well it will see another 4 generations.
 
I have an open ended shed that gets flooded with Startlings in the spring. They make a mess of the shed if I leave them in it to long. I have a 410 that I take out to thin them with. Kinda like Farmboy trap.
 
I love my H&R .410 single shot...it's a blast for rodents and even clays here and there!! Best $80 I have spent in a long while!
 
I've got one in the attic, but my grandsons jumped immediately to the 20 gauge. My lady has a .410 pump, given to her by her father. It's her shotgun for the squirrel woods and the annual clay shoot in the back pasture. That little gun has accounted for bushels of squirrels and rabbits over the years.
 
I still have the little Winchester 410-Single Barrel I hunted with when I was very young. Lots of squirrels in the pot for my grand dad who loved them with dumplings
 
I have a winchester 42 that was my uncles...have never shot it...probably would if I hunted squirrels or rabbits, but I dont..just upland birds and waterfowl...
 
I've taken quite a few squirrels and even a ringneck with a NEF .410 and my oldest brother has taken a few turkey with a .410 Remington 1100.
 
Chuck's Grandaddy's single shot 2 1/2 inch 410

When I was much younger my cousin Chuck would bring his granddad's single shot 2 1/2 inch 410 to hunt squirrels with. He was one year older than me and my younger brother and we followed him around in the Oaks. Our job was carrying his ammunition and dead squirrels that he had gotten. I do not remember if he ever cleaned the squirrels himself or if he gave them to someone else. That was a lot of fun and helped me enjoy hunting myself. The only 410 that I have is a Thompson Center 45/410 10inch pistol. Great for killing mice, field rats and other creatures that I feel are varmints.

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Here in the Florida lowbush the rabbits are something I grew up hunting and eating.

Glad to hear that I'm not the only one who still shoots clays with one, too. I guess the .410 to me, has such a sentimental value. I remember my great-grandfather,a real florida cracker and a true cowboy, telling me "anything there is in the lowbush you want to hunt, you can get with a four-ten". He killed everything from snakes to deer with his. It was old and had a nickle reciever with a bit of engraving scrolling but no manufacturer marks. I remember the barrel being the longest barrel anyone had ever seen on a .410.
 
My first shotgun at age 10 was a H&R single shot .410. Great squirrel and rabbit gun. I even went deer hunting with it a few times with 2.5 " slugs, although I never got a shot before moving on to Winchester single shot 20 GA as I got older. Probably a good thing, as I would have had to make one heck of a shot to drop a deer with that!

By the time I got my first 12 GA pump (still have it :D ), squirrel hunting seemed too easy, so I reverted back to the 20 GA for anything smaller than deer (not including fowl).
 
the first shot un I ever fired was an old SXS 410. I killed a lot of bottles and a few sparrows with it.

After that I went straight to a single shot 10ga. :eek:

I now have settled on the good old 12ga.
 
Love my lil youth 410 single shot. It was my 1st gun.

Full choke so I can actually hit clays at a distance most people claim ain't possible.

I love taking it out and running through a box or two.
 
Shot my grandfather's .410 at a chicken snake that was hold up in a gofer hole. It was a break open single shot. It was the first shotgun I ever shot. I was hooked in the joys of hunting at that point...perhaps 6 or 7 in age. A 410 guage is a delightful shotgun, and you can carry a pocket-full of ammo for rabbit, squirrle and game birds.
 
Just picked up another 150 rounds of Golden Bear 4B and 40 rounds of Remington slugs for my Mossberg Model 183KE. I thought I had enough for several years but some dang fool finds that little gun to be fun to shoot and it just will not stay in the closet where it belongs. :D
 
The main attraction as an adult for the .410 are the handy and often simple guns built to fire it. the handiest are old savage over and unders. Even just in .22lf and .410 you are ready for a lot of things.

Down side is the cost of the shells compared to 12 gauges. But if you reload the cost should be more reasonable. Probably can get a reasonable amount of 00 buck or maybe even some 000 handloaded into a shell for close and personal encounters with larger animals.
 
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