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xtriggerman

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Love of the 410 dates back to.....
« on: April 22, 2023, 11:28:07 PM »
..........when our companies knew how to make a small game gun not only effective but a pleasure to even cleanly mis your target! Simply because it gave you a maybe chance at quickly jacking in a follow up round and get a new fast bead on where ever your game bolted to! Just putting life thew these old guns holds a thrill for me. They were relatively affordable, had good fire power and handled great. Simple, Simple, Simple design and way up on the cool factor.

   In this case its a Stevens Savage model 59A .410 3" chambered. Manufactured 1934-73. Despite its long production date, You just dont see these offered up on the used market very much at all. 5+1 of 3" = fun any way you swing it. This one came from a good friend of mine for the price of $75 bucks and a number of past gunsmithing favors. I haven't done anything to it as of yet other than shooting it. It has a simple crack to glue and it needs a 0000 steel wool rub down and oil. The only thing I dont care for is the safety is a back to fire forward to safe motion. Just why this gun has not gone new retro, beats the hell out of me. Henry is partly there with the big tube loading port guns but for some reason todays 410 repeaters (lever & Auto) never became fully grown adults with 3" chambers. If you think 410 3" is hard to come by, they throw the newbs under the bus with unobtanium 2.5" chambers!







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Re: Love of the 410 dates back to.....
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2023, 10:49:12 AM »
I had one. Late model that dad bought for me to hunt small game when I was young. I used it some, but favored the larger 16ga for birds or 22s for ground critters. After he died, I stupidly traded it for a 10GA side by side thinking I would hunt more geese. Turned out I hunted less geese than I did rabbits etc and later it would have been an awesome anti skunk gun.  :doh:
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Re: Love of the 410 dates back to.....
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2023, 12:22:44 PM »
I used a 410 around my home for many years dusting red squirrels when their population closed in on the greys. Inside 30 yards, hardly a tail twitch once tagged with a 3"! This one wont go to my son....at all. For skunks, up in NY they favor any of your wheels on your vehicle at night back when I was in NY. They can pattern the underside of your car better than any pop gun!
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Re: Love of the 410 dates back to.....
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2023, 03:47:39 PM »
I have a Savage 59 (don't remember the letter designation) that takes a box magazine. Nice little gun.