There was a 10 year old girl that was about 3 1/2 foot tall, of asian decent, at our local range. She was the grandaughter of a wellknown local shooter. The grandfather had a local gunsmith take a Huglu O/U .410 and cut the barrels to about 20-22" and the stock down to some rediculously short LOP and reshape it. That little girl would shoot that gun with her grandfather and a squad of old farts and stay right on par with them. I'm sure she's all grown up now and dating boys in college or something.
I watched a particularly recoil sensitive lady (she had experience shooting rifles)have her husband buy her a .410 1100 and get shooting, then go on to buy other guns and compete, now with a P-gun 3 barrel set.
So, when someone says a .410 won't work for a first gun, I think of those two.
