I have owned that same gun for around 12-13 years and just sold it last month as I'm consolidating my shotguns to 12 gauge. It was the gun I had the most fun with. Used it for close range doves and pigeons. I also shot slugs in it. Beautiful gun.
My daughter has a Cooey model 84 .410, my 8 year old grandson(started at 6) has a Belgian folder 24 1/2" barrel. Brilliant guns, zero recoil and bags of fun. Pity the ammo range in the UK is not great.
Just picked one of these up and found some .410 ammo. Can't wait to give it a try. Beautiful wood on the one I got and think it would look even more sleek with an English stock.
I have a Mossberg bolt action 183 KE with a C - lect choke its mint about 1958 , (love it), a bit of fun like you say ,but you have to up your game on clays. Fiocchi 3" magnums hand it out👍🏻👍🏻
I have a loan of one presently. Have been working up some 2.5 inch loads for it. It absolutely loves 1/2oz 9 shot with a card, greased felt, cork wad column (patterns better than with plastic wads). Also created a nice close range rabbit load with UK6.5 shot, 9/16oz and buffer. As you say, fun gun.
I have one and take it to the clay ground whenever i go just for some amusement. use the 3 inch eley trap carts. always get comments or looks when i turn up they must be jealous LOL
I could be wrong but I believe they only want to phase out lead for game shooting not clays, so you could still use 410 for clays. You should be able to get bismuth/tungsten in 410 loads which are non toxic
Spoke to someone the other day regarding non toxic loads for small calibres, and he said there are currently no plans by any mainstream manufacturers to load anything smaller than a 20 gauge with non toxic. Also apparently the lead ban might just be game shooting, pigeons, food chain meat, however it's not been ruled out for clay shooting as well, your still scattering toxic material over land, so gird your loins and hold on tight!!!
@@richardtimms8733 Home reloading is pretty straightforward once you have got good data. With steel there should be a sacrificial 'sleeve' on the shot column unless you have chrome bores. The excellent Jokker steel cartridges use card about the thickness of a decent business card. Light chokes for bigger shot. With .410 the issue is more to do with the shot column length to give a meaningful load weight, but certainly not the end of .410 for quarry.
