.410 Sensitivity Day

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ImperatorGray

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It's 4/10, also known as .410 Awareness Day!

Did you know that when you call .410 a "gauge" rather than a "bore," you're giving it credit for just 63 percent of its diameter? Crazy, right?!

Most .410's don't let it show how much this thoughtlessness hurts them on a regular basis, instead bottling it up inside. Show your support for your trusty .410 bore by copying and pasting this as your status on your favorite social media platform!
 
67 gauge, I call it. Have a bunch including a pair of Stevens 22/410s, a Savage single, and an AYA custom double.
Love em all.
 
Strange you brought this up, Monday was "National Shotgun Day". I was so busy fishing that I forgot to celebrate.
 
One of my all-time favorite hunts was limiting out on 15 doves with a .410 in about an hour. It was over sunflowers and MOJO decoys.

I did the same (without decoys) in the 1960s with a Winchester 42 I had borrowed from my grandfather. When he passed in 1985, it went to my uncle. My uncle died at age 98 in March and willed it to me. I expect to give it a lot of exercise on clay birds this summer, and hopefully repeat my hunting experience in September! That little pump will stay in the family.
 
I let a just Drop Dead Gorgeous, Lefever 410 SxS get by me in 1972. And I still think and cuss myself about that several times a week. I still have two Iver Johnson single barrel 410`s that I try to hunt with at least once or twice a year. One of them belonged to my Grandmother, that little gun is very special to me.
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I use my .410 bore in the early part of dove season as well as the early part of quail season, along with my number one companion, my black lab. Later in the season I go to my SXS 20 gauge. Seems to be much more sporting that way.
 
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