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Posted: 5/13/2024 8:32:59 AM EDT
Want something to blast pests in my yard (rural 75 acres). Recommend me something reliable and choke preference. Thanks.
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WI, USA
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Posted: 5/13/2024 8:46:08 AM EDT
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Mossberg Bantam 510 in .410 is what you want. Adult sized, lightweight and made in the USA.
Gary |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 8:56:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jack_pine_savage: Mossberg Bantam 510 in .410 is what you want. Adult sized, lightweight and made in the USA. Gary I agree except if your an adult get an adult sized stock. Bantam is a name for the smaller stock for people of smaller stature. They come in full choke. You can also buy a 18” cylinder bore barrel for slug and buck. |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 9:13:25 AM EDT
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Mossberg, Henry, Rock Island Arms all make good shotguns. The issue in my area is finding ammunition. #4 3" .410 is unobtanium here.
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Posted: 5/13/2024 9:24:45 AM EDT
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Only gun I've ever owned that I really wished I had back was a mag-fed, bolt-action .410 Savage (or maybe Stevens) that my parents sold off when I went on active duty.
 Sweet little gun, will have another some day! |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/13/2024 9:33:25 AM EDT
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Look at 20 Gauge. .410 here is very rare and when you CAN find it it's twice the price and almost invariably is small birdshot.
By comparision, the local Academy has 6 different 20 ga loads from #3 buck to #8 birdshot and slugs. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 5/13/2024 9:35:48 AM EDT
[Last Edit: giantpune]
[#6]
My critter blaster is the henry 410 axe. It only has the 2.5" chamber if that matters to you.
If I wanted a 3", I'd go with the mossberg shockwave 410. Both of those are available as 26" "firearm" or a full length shotgun if you want a longer gun with longer range. |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 9:39:03 AM EDT
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What about the Winchester Model 9410 Traditional?
or a sweet O/U 410? Red |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 10:03:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By John-in-austin: Look at 20 Gauge. .410 here is very rare and when you CAN find it it's twice the price and almost invariably is small birdshot. By comparision, the local Academy has 6 different 20 ga loads from #3 buck to #8 birdshot and slugs. I have got to agree with this. What will a .410 do better than a 20ga ? Ok , less recoil , but for a small person a 20 ga with skeet or trap load is going to be not to bad. Noise is about the same if you have neighbors and anyplace you shouldn't be shooting a 20 you also should not touch off a .410 . Cost and availability of .410 makes it really hard and to be truthful the .410 throws so little shot it is hard to kill stuff . My way of thinking is a pistol with shotshells for real close tiny stuff (tweety birds inside a barn or snakes at 6 feet) , anything more the twenty is the way to go. I would advise the OP( if he has his heart set on the .410 )to go out shopping and get himself a decent pile of .410 ammo before he gets the shotgun |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 5/13/2024 10:27:26 AM EDT
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410 ammo is virtually Not Available.
Go 12 ga or 20 ga single shot if you want a nice one order in a Henry if it’s just a beater try the pawn shops. You can always use a chamber reducer and drop a 410 chamber reducer into a 12 or 20 or pick up a chamber reducer in a pistol caliber. |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 11:25:36 AM EDT
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I spend my winters in Florida. 410 ammo in almost every Walmart.
Except #4. Still hard to get. In four months I found one box. Midwayusa.com has #4 2 1/2” available. |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 1:47:11 PM EDT
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5 minutes on Ammo Seek yields 263 results. They'll ship it to your door.
Another vote for the Mossberg. |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 2:58:57 PM EDT
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My 410 recommendation is you learn how to reload it if you are sold on 410, because in 2 years I think I've found 5 boxes, and I'm always looking
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GA, USA
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Posted: 5/13/2024 3:13:45 PM EDT
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I haven't had any issues finding 410 ammo. I've got a stack of slugs and several hundred in different sizes of shot and a couple flavors of the gucci defender and defense loads
Quick peek shows academy sports with a couple variants in stock. #8 shot is $17 for 25 rounds. Federal has 2.5" and 3" in stock on their website, showing a few different size shot from 4, 6, 7, 7.5, 8, 9. Some of them listed as high-brass. Limit 80 boxes of 25rd on some of them. Thats barely enough. maybe if you work some dry-fire training into your routine. 
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/13/2024 3:57:19 PM EDT
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Browning BPS 410. Nice enough that your survivors will fight for it.
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Posted: 5/13/2024 6:17:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midmo: Only gun I've ever owned that I really wished I had back was a mag-fed, bolt-action .410 Savage (or maybe Stevens) that my parents sold off when I went on active duty. Sweet little gun, will have another some day!  Attached FileI got this Mossberg model 183 and Savage model 25 for 6 hours of wood splitting for an old timer that didn't use them anymore. The .410 runs .444 Marlin brass "shell s" great. No feeding or extraction issues. It sits at the back door for MotherChukars garden gun. 1/2 oz #4s with 13 grains of Lil' Gun does wonders. Guy that gave it to me even had the box, paper work and spare chokes. |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 8:07:26 PM EDT
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I wish someone would come out with a new production bolt action 410. Both tube and box fed.
I know I’m dreaming. But hey. I would get to relive my youth roaming the woods looking for game and what ever walked the earth. |
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Posted: 5/13/2024 8:48:56 PM EDT
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I just got an email listing a 3 barrel .410. Know nothing about it, but would be neat. I have an old single barrel .410 a friend gave me. Good little truck gun.
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Posted: 5/14/2024 7:02:09 AM EDT
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Turkey hunting with a .410 using #8 or #9 TSS shot is getting popular around here. Most of the guns I see in use are the Mossberg 510 or Stevens 301. The 301 comes with screw in chokes, the 510 can have them added by a well equipped gunsmith.
Joel Etchen usually has some Beretta O/U guns in .410/28 combo sets if you desire something more gentlemanly. |
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Posted: 5/14/2024 7:15:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By John-in-austin: Look at 20 Gauge. .410 here is very rare and when you CAN find it it's twice the price and almost invariably is small birdshot. By comparision, the local Academy has 6 different 20 ga loads from #3 buck to #8 birdshot and slugs. I grew up with a .410. Everything was just out of range. Wanted to buy the 20GA with my own $$$ but my father wouldn't go with it.  Just forget the .410, not worth it. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 5/26/2024 11:26:35 PM EDT
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I like the Winchester 9410, as another poster responded. Puts a smile on everybody's face when they shoot it. Marlin makes similar lever action,
410. 9+1 capacity. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 5:17:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mike103: I spend my winters in Florida. 410 ammo in almost every Walmart. Except #4. Still hard to get. In four months I found one box. Midwayusa.com has #4 2 1/2” available. I spend the entire year in Florida and the gun show scalpers buy all the 410 from Walmart and Academy and sell it for $30 a box. Haven’t seen it in store in a while. But I’d buy a 28 gauge for your purposes. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 4:09:52 PM EDT
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I picked up a Mossberg 505 youth and put an adult length stock on it.
Perfect rabbit/squirrel gun |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 8:00:00 PM EDT
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The .410 bore is an absolutely stupid shotgun.
The guy whose idea was to put it into the four guns of skeet should be dug back up and killed again. That being said I’m fascinated with the .410. I love shooting game with it. Love shooting varmints with it and love shooting clays with it. The 28 gauge is the exact opposite of the .410. Called the square load by 28 gauge enthusiasts who claim the bore diameter and pay load are perfectly balanced. The .410 bore is too small and it produces long shot strings and poor patterns compared to the other gauges. That being said it’s just pure fun to shoot. Especially on game such as quail or even pheasants. .410 slugs kill much harder than most think. But I have no experience killing anything with .410 buckshot. |
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SD, USA
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Posted: 5/27/2024 9:48:28 PM EDT
[Last Edit: fgshoot]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mike103: I wish someone would come out with a new production bolt action 410. Both tube and box fed. I know I’m dreaming. But hey. I would get to relive my youth roaming the woods looking for game and what ever walked the earth. I grew up on a Mossberg 410. I've shot a number of stevens bolt actions. I've owned the big dog, the Marlin Super Goose 10 gauge. Don't let nostalgia corrupt your memory. Anyone that's ever done any real shooting with a bolt action shotgun, never wants to see those bolt action shotguns return. I'm not sure I've ever seen one shoot 3 shells consecutively in my life. |
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SD, USA
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Posted: 5/27/2024 9:56:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: fgshoot]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mike103: The .410 bore is an absolutely stupid shotgun. The guy whose idea was to put it into the four guns of skeet should be dug back up and killed again. That being said I’m fascinated with the .410. I love shooting game with it. Love shooting varmints with it and love shooting clays with it. The 28 gauge is the exact opposite of the .410. Called the square load by 28 gauge enthusiasts who claim the bore diameter and pay load are perfectly balanced. The .410 bore is too small and it produces long shot strings and poor patterns compared to the other gauges. That being said it’s just pure fun to shoot. Especially on game such as quail or even pheasants. .410 slugs kill much harder than most think. But I have no experience killing anything with .410 buckshot. Lol, I've always felt the same way. 410 is somehow a class in competition, but a 16 gauge isn't? There's only one real reason to own a 410 anymore in my opinion, and that is to get one of the more oddball shotguns. That would be a lever action (henry), AR (AR 410), or even revolver (Taurus Judge). I'm no fan of the 28 gauge either though. At least it kind of makes sense where it came from, 54 caliber smoothbore muzzleloaders. There's no magic to it. There's nothing a 28 gauge can do that a 20 gauge can't. Some guns the 28 gauge might be 2-3 ounces lighter is about it. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 11:10:38 PM EDT
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ya know....they call the 410 - the idiot stick...
LOL Red |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/27/2024 11:28:03 PM EDT
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I don’t know your money situation, but a 410 double side by side is a ton of fun for critter ridder. I had a busted ass Steven’s side by side that served as a double rife while I Safari’ed chipmunks and charging moles on my part of the way North Mozambican territory. Even as a somewhat functional adult a 410 double was a blast on my after dinner walks. Ammo selection sucks now so I agree that I would opt for a 20. I can confirm that I have killed everything you can legally hunt or vermin eradicate with a 20 ga shotgun. My vote would be for the Huglu side by side. You’re never too old to be a kid.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 11:32:12 PM EDT
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My first .410 was a Savage Four Ten’er tube that reduced 12 gauge to .410.
I slid that into my Winchester Canadian produced model #370 and proceeded to roam the woods, parks, hunting clubs, farms, estates and many other places I was not supposed to be and shoot shit. The whole time believing the 410 was quieter and safer than a 12 gauge. Since then I’ve had a single shot bolt action, 1100, 870, 500, 9410 packer, tubes for my K80 and barrels for my K20. The 500 and 870 are gone and the 1100 is soon to follow. It’s time to lean the herd again. I forgot I bought one of those Rossi 18” single shot snake guns. Boy you can get in trouble with that thing. |
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Posted: 5/28/2024 7:41:17 AM EDT
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I like shooting 410, I just wish the ammo was more budget friendly.
I actually bought a semi-auto 410 at Walmart for $180 OTD. It works well with most 3 inch loads. I wouldn't get a semi as they can be load dependent and you never know what loads are available locally to feed it. A Mossberg pump or simple single shot for pests is likely a good candidate. I have a 10 gauge double I run with 20 gauge and 410 adapter inserts - its a lot of fun |
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Posted: 5/29/2024 10:33:34 AM EDT
[Last Edit: chumpmiester]
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It's hard to beat the Mossberg 500 with its full choke barrel. I've been using my 410 Mossberg 500 since around 1985 and have never had any issues with it. I have taken plenty of small game and turkeys with it. I have even used it for an occasional round of skeet.
I mostly shoot 3" shells for hunting and have been reloading 410 shells since 1996. Even with today's prices, it is still cheaper to reload 410 shells. Before I saved up mu lawn mowing money for the Mossberg 500. I used my dad's old single shot Western Field 410 or an old bolt action 410. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/29/2024 1:10:31 PM EDT
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AR .410, MLok, 18" stainless barrel, 5 or 15 rd mags
Always wanted one of those. Not sure I've ever needed one lol. NOT the polymer lower version, however. |
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WY, USA
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Posted: 5/29/2024 11:08:32 PM EDT
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 I’d look for an old Savage 24. I have one that’s been converted to a later hammer with the selector and I love it |
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