Let's stir the hunting with a .410 pot again

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Fabs that's all I am is an amateur. Actually I used to shoot quite a bit..pigeons doves ducks geese quail blackbirds...anything that flew.. For about 8 yrs straight I shot more than 50,000 shells a year. When it came to hunting I shot what I brung if you know what I mean. Always had a gun or two with me...not always the shells for them..Most of the ducks I shot(with the 410) were wood ducks in the woods ponds. Short ranges anyway. 30 yds was a long shot so a 410 would work as would the 28. Used M-12 Winchesters and M-42 in the 410. Teal and the 28 ga go together like bacon and eggs. Where we shoot teal a shot of 20 yds would be long... many are in 20 ft ranges. The few times i shot gese with a 410 we were shoting the pond that I still shoot. Ranges were short(still are) most of the time so it really didn't matter what we used. This was lead shot days too understand. Tried the 410 on divers one time...It just wouldn't work as the shots were a bit longer....and the ducks were really moving. I crippled a couple(they were bagged by my fellow hunters) but the 410 really worked on any cripples we had. 20 yd head shots were deadly. Used 5's most of the time in the 410 on larger birds. Understand now these guys that we were talking about in the beginning of this thread were shooting called, standing Turkeys(I assume) in the head, 30 yds with 5's or 6's with a full choke will kill a turkey dead dead dead. That should be as far as anyone should shoot the 410...even at doves. BTW I hunt with a guy that shoots the 410 at doves...and it is an unusual day when he doesn't shoot a limit in under 20 shells(410 now). Needless to say I don't stand close to him in a dove field. I like to shoot too. Oh and he doesn't do it for cheap thrills and to impress anyone.. The 12 or 20 just isn't any sport for him...oh and he hates recoil!!