My first shotgun exposure was around nine years of age with a 410 bore single shot, exactly the same as all my friends. All of us had youth sized 410 bores, I think either Ted Williams or J.C. Higgins. We used them during dove and quail season in south Texas. We moved to a 20 gauge when we grew some more and were showing proficiency bringing down dove and quail with the 410's.
A 410 bore's recoil is introductory level and my I taught my grandson shot guns using one against clay pigeons standing upright on a rail.
The downing of my first dove with the 410 is an experience I can still see in my minds eye many decades later. A youth 410 was a rite of passage in south Texas right, wrong or indifferent.
Don
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U.S. Coast Guard, retired CPO
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