Weather was hot and humid by Pa standards yesterday but we got invited over to our friends place to shoot some clay birds. I'm not a sport shooter and all I had was my hunting guns a Marlin 55 bolt action 12 and my most favorite walking around gun a 20 ga Winchester model 12 , about 4 couples there for a nice afternoon of shooting . One guy had a mossberg 410 pump for his wife to shoot , I've never owned a 410 or even seen one shot against clay birds but I have to say I was impressed ! She was breaking them as well and as far out as the 20 and 12 ga Guns did maybe the full choke helped in that regard . I even commented to my wife of the ride home how nice a nice light double in 410 would be for Christmas ! Lol I might even take up dove hunting again
I know clay birds are easier to kill than real game but is the little 410 actually that effective enough In the field for say running rabbit and flushing grouse ?