I used to hunt with a Winchester model 42 410 ga but gave it up as my success rate dropped dramatically . I found was there was not enough shot in the pattern to make clean kills . I had been using a 20 gauge Browning Grade V and switched to the 410 . I was getting frustrated one day(as it had for a year) on my lack of success and finally my Golden flushed some partridge on a side hill , as I shot I could see my pattern hitting around the birds in the soft summer fallow field in the background and they were able to pass thru the pattern . I really was not missing ,there was not enough density in the pattern .I went back to the 20 ga and my success went back up. I loved the little 410 but it did not work for me .
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