ORIGINAL: thundermug
A 410 shotgun is actually a 41 calibre smooth bore rifle. If you can take your muzzle loader out with black powder, why not a .41 smooth bore using smokeless powder? Not much difference except the 410 has a higher muzzle velocity.
Bingo!!
With in its limitations it will be fine for deer. It is legal some places that rifles are not and is more kid friendly than the recoil from the BP rifles I have seen. Winchester makes a rifled
120gr slug at 1800 fps. That is not to far behind a light 30-30 reload. It defininately is not for long range but, will definitly get the job done with in 50 to 75 yards or so.
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