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Picked up a little Mossberg 500 in .410...Sweet little shotgun I tell ya..

Gonna use it on chickens this fall...Yep up here we call ruffed grouse chickens..

Anyone else hunt with a .410?

Sonny, that is a great find. I have a old bolt action Stevens 410 but I only shoot Clay pigeons worth it so far.

I have a single shot I think it is a Stevens?? Never hunted with it, but it sure is fun to shoot.

You have a nice looking shotgun!!!

I have an O/U Stevens Savage in 22/410. I have only shot slugs out of it.

All I ever used for wabbits was a single shot Cooey .410. Everything else tore up too much meat.

The .410 is working out good.

Always thought about picking up a complete set of those but haven't yet. Guess that will hit me in the face a few years from now when they're priced out of sight. Very nice shotgun Sonny, sure wish we had those birds around here in place of the whitetails...

Jbob wrote:Always thought about picking up a complete set of those but haven't yet. Guess that will hit me in the face a few years from now when they're priced out of sight. Very nice shotgun Sonny, sure wish we had those birds around here in place of the whitetails...

We got Whitetails..
Mule deer..
Elk..
Moose..
Caribou..
Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep'..
Mountain goat.
Black bear..
Grizzly bear..
Wolf..
Coyote.
Fox..
and a whole lot of other critters..

But them Ruffies sure do taste good..

"Thunder chickens". 30 yrs. ago you would see 8-10 crossing the road in the back country around here. I've only seen/heard 3-4 birds in the last 6 yrs. The NC wildlife is doing a study on their demise.

My first gun was a 410 purchased by my mom when I was about 10 years old. She bought all 3 of us boys the same Revelation 410 from Western Auto and we all still have them today. That was many years ago and we boys thought we were real deer hunters with a pocket full of slugs.
Back then you'd walk a mile just to see a deer track, now you can't keep them form eating every flower and shrub in sight....

I could not play in this game until today. Picked up a Spanish SxS in 410. Circa 1966, petite and nice to hold.

Sonny wrote:Picked up a little Mossberg 500 in .410...Sweet little shotgun I tell ya..

Gonna use it on chickens this fall...Yep up here we call ruffed grouse chickens..

Anyone else hunt with a .410?

Around my area, we call ruffed grouse "bush partridge". Drives the internet police crazy.

I did all my rabbit/beagle hunting with a .410 Cooey Canadian 60's mfg. I think the grouse that used to be here, and quail, are having their eggs/young eaten by damn coyotes. The Appalachian mountains have a "Canadian zone" 4500 ft. and above, With Canadian plant life, New England cottontails, the last of the grouse, and always a few deer/ bear.