If you want to shoot .410 in the field you must put in the time and effort to find out what works for you and your gun. Cheap shells, soft shot, poor choke selection will make a .410 a very frustrating choice which will result in too many misses or lightly hit birds. Everyone needs to get better at range estimation. Those who shoot Sporting Clays have already started reading target flight paths better than most. Just to think you can pickup a .410 and shoot it well you better have tons of God given talent because without pratice you will fail.
I shoot .410 at Sporting Clays, 16 yard trap and Skeet. Some think Im shooting a 28 or 20 because when I do my part it smokes birds. Its practice, fine tuning gun, ammo and shooter. When I reload .410 I will load 1,000 to 1,500 in a sitting. Practice with good stuff makes all the difference to me.
