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Posted By: Researcher RBL-410 - 11/30/13 01:15 AM
Finally picked up my RBL-410 from my FFL on the 23rd. Got to shoot one round of skeet with it on the 24th and shot a 21. Missed a high two, a low six and both birds at station four. The gun weighs a fraction of an ounce over five pounds, and with the 28-inch barrels has a slight muzzle heavy bias. The frame is really tiny. The firing pin spacing is 13/16 inch center-to-center and the width across the breechballs is 1 5/8 inch. On the RBL-28 the firing pin spacing is 1-inch, same as the RBL-20, but the exterior of the 28-gauge frame is smaller, 1 7/8 inch across the breechballs while the 20-gauge is 2-inch.





Here are some pics with the RBL-28 in the middle and the RBL-20 at top.





Bottom view really accentuates the difference in size.



Sorry about the crumby indoor flash pictures, but the weather hasn't cooperated for outdoor natural light pictures.
Posted By: Erik W Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 01:24 AM
What a nice set of RBL's. I'd love to have a 410 to round out my set, but I am at an age where I can no longer tolerate CSM's extended build & delayed delivery times. Hoping to pick one up on secondary market. What chokes did you order? Do they mike to implied dems? Assume they are 3" guns?
Posted By: skeettx Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 01:39 AM
What a dainty and beautiful gun, enjoy it often
Mike
Posted By: bbman3 Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 02:47 AM
Dave,your 410 is a real beauty! Bobby
Posted By: Dick_dup1 Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 09:27 AM
Very very nice!-Dick
Posted By: AmarilloMike Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 11:24 AM
Neat guns. Thanks for posting.

5lbs, 28" barrels, 410 - be a nice bobwhite gun!
Posted By: Chuck H Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 11:44 AM
I was thinking at 5 lbs it'd be a nice chukar gun. wink

Nice pile of lumber there. grin
Posted By: ohiosam Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 01:21 PM
Nice little gun. A friend just got one but I haven't had a chance to see it yet.
Posted By: eightbore Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 03:03 PM
Thanks, Dave. I doubt seriously that we'll be seeing the .410 RBL on the secondary market. Maybe CSMC is still taking orders.
Posted By: tw Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 03:26 PM
That's way cool, Dave! Looks like you got some really spectacular wood in that gun as well. Curious, were you shooting that round of skeet with the gun mounted or low gun? I found w/my 20 that I was quite hard pressed to shoot it well pre-mounted at skeet, but low gun it is a very natural shooter and in the field a real delight. At 5 pounds on a skeet field, it is all shooter, so I'm impressed either way, especially since it was your first round w/it. I'd hope you keep us in the loop as you get to use it more frequently.
Posted By: Researcher Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 04:13 PM
I shot NSSA Skeet for too many years to do "low gun" even though I know it would be better for my hunting. I doubt I'll ever take the RBL-410 hunting. I put a couple of nice gouges in my RBL-16 when I took a tumble out in the Channeled Scablands chasing Pheasants, so it is my permanent hunbting RBL. Down along the Tucannon River on Friday the 22nd --

Posted By: Mike A. Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 04:50 PM
Great photo.

The trouble with the "Channeled Scablands" is the bunchgrass doesn't cushion the basalt much; hard landings! And too much of it is posted....
Posted By: skeettx Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 04:55 PM
You KNOW the crafty 16 gauge gun did that just so she
would be used more !

You gotta watch those 16s smile

Nice picture
Posted By: Bob Cash Re: RBL-410 - 11/30/13 10:55 PM
What a beautiful Double.
Although none of your RBLs are slouches, the wood on your 28 is my favorite.
Use them all in good health!
Posted By: Chuck H Re: RBL-410 - 12/01/13 03:19 PM
Researcher
That looks like two good friends had a great day.

Take that 410 to the field and enjoy it. Bring a gun slip and take it to a dove shoot. You only go around once and time waits for no man.
Posted By: GLS Re: RBL-410 - 12/01/13 04:26 PM
Your wealth of shotgun knowledge and collection of RBL's speaks volumes for the quality of the gun. My knock around guns aren't even close to your 16. smile Very nice guns! Gil
Posted By: Stanton Hillis Re: RBL-410 - 12/01/13 07:00 PM
Originally Posted By: Chuck H
Researcher
That looks like two good friends had a great day.

Take that 410 to the field and enjoy it. Bring a gun slip and take it to a dove shoot. You only go around once and time waits for no man.


+1 Excellent advice.

SRH
Posted By: Gunflint Charlie Re: RBL-410 - 12/01/13 10:29 PM
Very nice. I'm wondering after looking at the three together how similar they are in drop and pitch. They appear to vary a bit, but maybe that's just a difference in how they're positioned for the photos.

Jay
Posted By: improved modified Re: RBL-410 - 12/02/13 05:26 PM
NICE!
Posted By: Researcher Re: RBL-410 - 12/02/13 05:31 PM
The 28-gauge does have more pitch than the other two.
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