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I can't get over a couple of furriners letting their little spaniel run loose on a sporting clays course. Thanks for closed captions since I didn't understand a word those guys were saying.

Shooting a 7 pound .410 built on a 20 gauge frame doesn’t really do anything for me.
There are a number of YouTube channels populated by Italians that shoot .410 only.

I would very much like to hear how PALUNC’s first visit to the range with his new 410 went, however.

How did it go?

I once owned a .410 Citori that weighed more than my 20 gauge Beretta Onyx. I shot it pretty well, but agree that it was just too heavy to justify keeping it.

If you need a seven pound .410 you are not interested in shooting a .410. That would be almost as much fun as carting a nine plus pound O/U with Briley tubes in it. I always thought they should have put a weight restriction on Skeet guns. Nothing over 7.5 pounds. But longer barrels and tubes sold a lot of new guns. Never liked a 28/.410 set where the .410 was half a pound heavier than the 28.

As soon as he said that, I quit caring. Browning .410’s always weighed more than their 20’s.
Stuffing 3/4 oz of shot in a 3” .410 doesn’t interest me either.

There’s an Italian channel where he shoots xtra xtra full .410 on decoying pigeons.
It’s interesting because of the precision with which he delivers the small payload.
He’s a phenomenal shot.
I enjoy watching that.


I hope PALUNC had a great outing with his new gun.

Just yesterday I watched the movie Secretariat. John Malkovich played Lucian Lauren. In the beginning of the movie he is so pathetic at golf, he took his golf clubs and chucked them high into the air and into the garbage can and screamed- FORE.!! That's what comes to mind when I think about me shooting a .410 shotgun. That's what I'd be doing with it. Ha-ha!! LOL.

It’s not something to be afraid of.
Shooting the .410 can make you a much better gunner.

A good .410 shooter becomes a good judge of distance, becomes excellent at seeing the line, at tracking the bird and consistent in their shooting technique. Fail in anyone of these things and you will be inconsistent at best and more likely a bad .410 shooter. You will be good one shot and bad the next. You can not let the little .410 get into your head. Shoot it aggressively and confidently. I always say that the center of my .410 pattern is about the size of a large dinner plate and will kill any bird I hit with it. I just need to put the plate in the right spot.

That is the key to doing well with the .410, believing in it's ability. When that dinner plate sized core is put in the right spot it is every bit as deadly as the core of a pattern from a larger gauge. Density delivered on target, with enough energy per pellet, is what kills birds and breaks targets. Put enough pellets int he target and it's yours, regardless the gauge. As I have said so many times before, it doesn't matter what bore size delivers the goods. If the density and pellet energy is there it's a done deal. Keeping the range to 30 yds. (maybe a hair more in some instances) and less ensures you can do that.