.410 shotgun?

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Bozzer52

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Hey I know this isnt somthing you hear about a lot, but I've heard of guys useing .410 loaded with 00 buck for some varmints. I was just wondering if any of you had heard of this. and if so whats a good pump .410?

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Bozzer, i havent heard of it, but there's not many pellets in a 410 shell using 00 buck. 12 gauge would be way more effective and not to mention the guns will run you about the same price and ammo for the 12 gauge will probably be cheaper and easier to find. The general recomendation is a healthy dose of #4 Buck.
 
I have done some experimenting with 410 and 00buck, in a Contender 14" barrel. I handloaded 5-00buck in a 3" shell. It patterned 6" at 10 yds. and penetrated a 2x, and 1/2 of a 1x lumber out of the short barrel. In a longer shotgun barrel i'm sure more velocity and penetration would be achieved. But the pattern would be the critical part with only 5 pellets, as Crapshoot mentioned. The 00 buck pellet out of a standard shotgun would develope about 110-120 ft/lbs of energy. I would suspect you would need 3 in the vital zone for a clean kill. One would have to pattern a particular shotgun barrel. But I also would take a guess, 15 yds would be pushing the range issue. Personally I think the 410 would might work, on a yote that wasn't moving any faster than a slow trot. But keeping in mind a 6" pattern/range would be about max. I don't know that I would buy a gun for this specific purpose though.
But your question does get me too thinking, on a custom 16 1/4" 20 ga. Encore in the pistol mode /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Dave
 
I would just go with rifled slugs if you want to shoot your .410. I know a guy that uses one on predators, and he needs to call them in about 50 to 70 yds, for a good kill.

Scott12
 
I guess you can do it easily enough, but you're not going to get more than 5 or 6 00 buck pellets in that tiny hull. You've got several better alternatives. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal
 
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