Recent content by vintage sportsman

Best 'yote round for keeping fur! 410 #4 Buckshot with 5 pellets the size of atwenty-two round at 1400fps the holes are tiny. I have a reload I make with two roundballs that is accurate to 75 yards - good brush and cover round.

Sta away from the PPK/S, am waiting for UPS to come drag it away to S&W. Has broken twice in lessa than 50 rds?! Nice little carry gun, but not worth a thing if they don't function - comments?

I shoot at a privately owned pit in Jaffrey NH where I have landowner permission - drop me a line and maybe I can hook you up.

Hello Everyone, I am a collector of .410s mostly - but like talking shop with anyone. I do find that many who write about the .410 do so from a standpoint of conjecture and here-say from others. Having reloaded and shot countless #s of rounds through the .410 I find it one of the most...

I once had a Mossberg in 183K - great little gun til the HS went South and blew her up in one shot. I Epoxied a set of Scope mounts just forward of the boly and with a 6X shotgun scope was "Dead on" at 100 yards in a 3" group using Brenneke slugs. My hopes were to shoot a deer with it, but in...

You are right - almost! Lefteyedom is right - it matters who is hunting with the .410. I would not hand one to an inexperienced hunter and say "Go kill you a deer". As for his first shotgun - Some of the older 410 bolt actions are junk - had one blow up on me after 300-400 rounds, it seems the...

I like the .410 for deer!? Don't know what all the hub bubs about - many deer have been shot and killed with a .410 - I shot a buck on opening day with my .410 and he dropped in his tracks at 40 yds.+/- As for the .410 being a starter gun it is more than that - it is a sharpshooting, meat...