Elmer Keith:
"We never could see much if any excuse for a .410 bore gun."
Bob Brister:
"Only the central portion of a .410 pattern is effective and
sometimes it has holes. The fringe is ragged and thin. To break good
scores a shooter must be either lucky a lot of the time or dead center
most of the time."
Bruce Buck:
"If you can break anything with that popgun, you're doing
swell."
Bill:
"The tiny .410 can be
loads of fun on the skeet range. These little guns have no recoil
whatsoever, so there is no fatigue involved, and your shoulder never gets
sore. Yes, you will miss targets that a 12 or a 20 would have tagged - but the satisfaction of the
hits that you do make will more than compensate.
Forget the perfection of 100 straight - instead of a monotonous game of misses, the
.410 bore converts skeet into an exciting game of hits. You expect to
smoke them with a 12 - but there's a quiet satisfaction when you get that
puff of dust with a tiny gun."