Thread: Crash course on duck hunting

With little to no experience 410 no! 20 minimum. Last thing you want is to be pricking birds (wounding).
You need to be right on the money to shoot well and get clean kills with a 410.
Just use smaller shot size get to a clay ground and practice it's not rifle shooting! Shotgun shooting is a totally different discipline.
What your trying to do is really trow a tennis ball to hit another fast moving tennis ball.
Lots come into play and making the ball that your throwing smaller is not going to help you at all.
I've never shot a lot of steel shot (please someone with more experience at the ranges he's talking about step in).
But practice is key. Pace out your pond then put in some markers so you can start to judge the ranges, I used to place a dead duck on a post then mark out 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 yards. This gave me enough idea to figure out how far away the average duck was....this all then goes to shit when a teal our spoony flys through.
Anyway practice and gun fit!