Lets see, it's okay too:
-choke your 12 bore F/F and be able to load 3.5" shells for ducks and geese.
-choke your 12 bore F/C and use 3.5" high velocity shells for pheasants
-choke your 12 bore Sk/Sk and shoot shells with #9 shot for skeet.
But somehow you're "cheating" if you do all you can to get maximum performance, for the job at hand, from your .410. Do I detect a note of hypocracy here?
As far as crippled birds, the people who should be taken to task are those that hunt without dogs, if that is truly your issue. And yes I realize that not everyone can or should own a dog, my only point is that they can find the birds with their nose that we can't find with our eyes (how about the +40 yards birds that fall dead and can't be found in heavy cover).
All you guys talking about crippling game, what are you doing shooting at birds past 40 yards with your 12 gauge. With greater range we have more open patterns, more chance of crippling a bird, gee thats the same argument you're using against .410's.
I said in my original statements "under 30 yards", yet somehow it's okay to shoot at pheasants that are +40 yards out, as long as you have a 12 gauge with 3.5" shells, thats been maximized for upland hunting.
You crippler guys keep going back to the same old argument that basically say it's okay for a 12 gauge but not for a .410.
Steve
