410 Ammo

[jim 44-40]

Found 3 boxes of Win HS shells at Wallymart.410 2 1/2 in birdshot.Took one box home @ $16.99 for 25 rds.

[tinsnips]

Good find have the same problem finding some for my grandson awhile back.

[truckerdave397]

If you bird dog Wally World enough you will find them. It helps to be retired. About $23 + tax for 3 inch Remington shot shells.

[Half Dog]

I have 6 shot that seems no one wants. I’m thinking of shooting them so I can reload the hulls. 9 shot at Walmart is ~$16.50 per box.

[Tripplebeards]

$16.99 for a box of 29 just makes my butt pucker!lol. I remember back in the day when I was a kid in the late 70s early 80s and you could get a box of 25, 410 for $2.99, 20 gauge for $3.99, and 12 gauge for $4.99 in bird and rabbit shot. Best part is you still can get 12 gauge for $4.99 to $5.99 per 25 at Walmart if you’re there at the right time. Gauges in 410 and 20 gauge is now $16.99 on up per 25. Ouch!!!

[rbuck351]

That's why I'm loading mine in brass cases. With my present components, it costs me about $3.05 for 25 1/2 oz loads. When I have to buy more shot, it will go up to about $$3.85 per box. For 3/4oz loads, about $3.60 per box. When I have to buy more shot it would be about $4.75 per box at current lead prices. As I only use my 22/410 for grouse, I may never run out of shot.

[compass will]

Be glad you dont shoot 28g. But even 28 is avaliable mail order. For a while there 4:10 was priced like it was loaded wirh gold.

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[kerplode]

410 is hard to find. There's high demand from the revolver shotgun crowd plus relatively low production. To be honest, $16.99 is a decent price. The olden days are gone...This stuff is never going to be "cheap" again.

[rbuck351]

The local Walmart has 28 ga on the shelf. No 410 at all. and no 16ga.

[elmacgyver0]

410 is hard to find. There's high demand from the revolver shotgun crowd plus relatively low production. To be honest, $16.99 is a decent price. The olden days are gone...This stuff is never going to be "cheap" again.

Which means the price should go down, back when we had capitalism, more companies would step in to fill the demand and competition would lower the price.
Those days are gone.

[kerplode]

Which means the price should go down, back when we had capitalism, more companies would step in to fill the demand and competition would lower the price.
Those days are gone.

Except that the total capacity for shotgun shell production is relatively fixed, and although 410 demand is historically high, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to 12ga demand. Since it takes essentially the same resources to make a 12ga shell as it does a 410 shell, the at-scale production will always remain with 12ga because there is much greater opportunity for profit there. 410 will remain in batch production and higher overall prices will equalize the supply and demand equation.

[Minerat]

They think 16 ga are made of gold too if you can find them. Mostly have to get them on line and then they are foreign brands. I guess not many use the 16 in Colorado. Wish I had kept all of the empties we shot on TX dove hunts in the 1970's. Aah for the good old days.:bigsmyl2:

[Tripplebeards]

I saw 410 TSS shot at Walmart the other day and just about crap my pants with the price. I think it was 69 or 79 bucks for 10 of them. Ouch! I’ll stick to my $5.99 per 10 Remington 12 gauge turkey loads I bought last year from Walmart. They may not pattern as good as the 30 or $40 per 10 box but I have too tight of a pattern at the distances I shoot with the cheap stuff at turkeys on average and almost miss…at 10 yards.lol

[truckerdave397]

I bought 5 boxes of 410 at Wally World today for $90 out the door. Two boxes of Winchester 2.5 inch and three boxes of Federal 3 inch. The Federal was actually cheaper by about a buck a box.

[Thundarstick]

The Wal-Marts around here always have 28G at about the same price as 12G. I exclusively buy WW just for the hulls in 28G, but attain 12G hulls from the clays range, and reload both. It's much more difficult to find .410 anywhere. Much of the .410 I see is 5 round boxes of specialty ammo tailored for the the revolver crowd.

[shtur]

The price of 410 ammo is the reason I sold my two Winchester Model 42's. I bought a 20 ga Remington 870 and have really been having fun with it.

[turtlezx]

410 cheepest to reload most costly to buy loaded

[trapper9260]

You load your own and do not worry about the store.

[Shawlerbrook]

Pretty much the case with all ammo these days but I still can’t figure out 410 pricing.

[trapper9260]

I know at one point that there was not much 410 ammo, then when Tursus came out and then the Governor came out then it came back.

[fatboy]

i just set up one of my MEC Sizemasters in 410. i ordered a 410 set of dies a couple of years ago when they were about 90.00, for feeding a Judge i picked up. i was going to swap it back an forth on my steel master press. then i found a Sizemaster sitting in a friends basement that he didn't use after he bought it. He sold it to me and now she is a 410 press. my inspiration to get it switched over was that i found a used Henry 410 20" barrel on Gun Broker that called out to me to be rescued. so she is my newest Rescue, her box was a little shabby but she is settling in with the new family quite well now.

[Soundguy]

hit the ranges..pick up brass and shells..reload... cheapest way to shoot...

[contender1]

I guess I should go set up at a gun show. I have several boxes of .410,, and a bunch of 16 gauge I could sell. I don't own a 16 gauge,, and the ammo I got was in a army ammo can, went through a flood, but when a buddy of mine tried some, they all fired just fine. The .410 stuff is all new & properly stored. I do have an old cheap .410 I got over 50 years ago, but I won't shoot it. It had been neglected & the barrel isn't as it should be.
Then, I also have some TrailBoss powder. I saw the 1 lb sized containers at a local show,, (and yes,, I know it's not a pound,,)
that looked rough & the guy wanted $150 a can for them.
I have enough of all this stuff that if I sold it for much less than what the current market is asking,, I could still buy myself a very nice new gun.

I guess it can pay to be a scrounger sometimes.

[Texas by God]

Grabbing a Mec .410 loader at a pawn shop for $75 was a smart move for me. I only have two .410s(shotguns) but I get to enjoy them a lot more now.
My personal preference is for #7-1/2 shot.
If I need bigger shot, that’s what the 20 and 12 gauge are for.


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