Murder Hornets, you say?

May 4, 2020 12:15 PM

Bigbl87

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THIS is what white phosphorus is for.

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Snakes, Snakes, Snakes

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Also, snakes, especially water snakes.

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“Found a nest, let’s nuke the bastards” v

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Only 410s

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The day when the US evolved into Australia

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Pretty sure the Tunnel Rats found them handy as fuck though...

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And remember, don't by the Taurus pictured.. The S&W Governor holds 6 shells instead of 5.. Food for thought

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Traded my judge in on the governor years ago. Definitely like the feel of the S&W more

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Snake shot akimbo .357s need to be nerfed

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Every. Final. Circle.

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Yes but what if I'm attacked by 6 people? The gun only holds 5 hornets.

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So are we doing anything about it? Bee are already dying. These fuckers might wipe them out.

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Grampa used them to shoot rattlesnakes when he saw them in his yard.

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I've used my old, single-shot, break action, .410 for that out hunting, and yeah. It works. Look at me. I'M the Grandpa now!

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Off to kill the cazadores with the big iron on his hip...

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Also, sneks

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The gun is for yourself lol

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It’s decent for punching murder holes through walls in siege

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you came to the wrong neighborhood motherfucker

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Thats a bunch of drones trying to mate with a queen yellow jacket. Got posted yesterday.

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finally those things do something useful

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2020 is like an advent calendar. Each month we open a new door for a new fun surprise.

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A .410 revolver is a fun way to get carpool tunnel syndrome /s

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This would be the quickest way to die, breaking the skin releases a pheremone which attracts more of them

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Well a specific organ, not just the skin

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What's this I hear that they kill honey bees?

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Just one can kill about 10,000 honeybees in a couple hours. European honeybees, which are what most keepers raise-they're more productive-

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have no natural defense against them. Native Asian honeybees adapted a method to kill them by essentially dogpiling onto the hornets and-

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cooking them to death with the heat of their vibrating wings.

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snakes

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My reason is copperheads and that my 12 gauge is to heavy to hike with. Normally they mind their business but sometimes they are aggressive

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Cazador? Cazador.

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Patrolling the Mohave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

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Holy crap. It's been years since I've played FNV, and those things are still one of the worst 'random encounters' that's ever been released.

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**a distant humming** anyway, so i started blasting

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Sorry mom, sorry neighbors dog, sorry harmless bumblebee

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Not the bumblebees!

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Let's not forget they made snake shot for .45s and 9 mils.

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What is snake shot

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You can actually load your own

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Really? I did not know that. I wish I could afford all the reloading stuff. Some day I'll get into it. But I definitely never thought that

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It’s easy and so much more info out there I was taught by my Dad and some friends. Start with a single stage press. Lee Precision brand.

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I need to have so much 243 and other weird calibers that would save me money if I just reloaded

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Yeah as much as I like shotguns it pays off to reload for rifles, that’s what I started doing before shotgun and pistol. Start saving brass

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Yeah I load for .22 Hornet and .300 Whisper also the .44 S&W Special, not obscure, just not always on the shelf.

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30 Japanese Giant Hornets kill 30,000 Honey Bees

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No ride of the valkyries for BGM?

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F that

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dammit, the honey bees just started coming back too. we've gotta make a virus to kill off these hornets and make them sterile.

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The European honeybees get massacred entirely, native Asian Honeybees can actually defend their hive by balling over the hornets and-

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Any asian hornet nests that might pop up over here are targeted for immediate extermination. Government approved.

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The correct response to any incredibly destructive invasive species- like lionfish off the Florida coasts here

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Great Oatmeal comic on it: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/bees_vs_hornets

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then vibrating their wings to heat up the interior of the bee-mass to cook the hornets alive. Though it's mainly to kill scouting hornets-

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rather then fight off a whole swarm.

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so the solution is to migrate asian bees and have them breed here? I'm guessing they wouldn't get along with our bees.

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Keepers mainly raise the European species, even in Japan, because they're more productive when it comes to honey yields, thus the farms-

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Ah May 2020. Murder hornets.

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Don't forget the pentagon released a ufo video

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June 2020: Flying spiders size of a frying pan

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Please tell me not in CA...

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Weird. For may, the alien invasion was scheduled. Maybe we have a delay her because they did turn wrong after Mars or so

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Poor cthulhu is never going to get a chance

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He is the second greatest desaster to hit in 2020, right before the re-election of Trump

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Is there a webpage keeping track of all the bullshit 2020 is serving?

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Sadly, the news is.

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See, 2020 even fucks with file extensions!

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We should at least get a calendar going

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My thoughts exactly

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You need a revolver because it's illigal to have a sawed off shotgun, ppl will find a way.

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No it's not. You just need to fill out the correct paperwork to get a short-barreled shotgun tax stamp. Or buy a pistol-grip shorty.

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They’ve found ATF ways around it. So long as it’s new production it an “any other weapon” basically no sock or something

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A .45 will fit a .410 shell

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yeah check out the shockwave or a pro series S mini. the ATF clearly stopped caring about short barreled shotguns lol

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It changes with the political winds. Couldn't shoulder a pistol stabilizing brace w/o instantly converting status of weapon to SBR/SBS...

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then Trump was elected and ATF issued a new interpretation of the regulations. Have that letter allowing "occasional" shouldering along with

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copy of my Form 4+tax stamp readily available (suppressor) just in case. 300BLK 7.5" PDW.

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Not really, you just get your tax stamp from the ATF for an SBS and you’re good to go.

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Sawed off shotguns aren't illegal with the correct paperwork. Just like suppressors, they require a tax stamp and trust.

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Because laws are stupid

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Look at the Mossberg shockwave or tac 14

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You can go insane trying to make sense of "gun control" laws

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It's only illegal if you don't have the proper paperwork....

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And also money.

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And don't live in one of the absurd states that say you can't anyway

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And get caught in those other ones

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Still needs a rifled barrel for arcane reasons.

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All firearms, except shotguns, by law must have rifled barrels. Makes it easier to prosecute you in a court of law.

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Yeah, the spinning makes the ley field stronger so your loaded spell charges get a potency boost.

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I wouldn't call it being able to shoot pistol cartridges an arcane reason...

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Even pistols chambered only in shotgun rounds need to be rifled.

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Believe it or not, rifling is a reasonable attribute to distinguish between shotgun or not shotgun.

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I can see it being useful if you live in an area with long grass and snakes.

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That's pretty much what it was designed for. You're not bringing .410 to a gun fight when you can use a bullet.

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always bring a tank to a gun fight

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Man if I could fit a tank in my back pocket like some crazy video game physics I would. Would make traffic jams easier.

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just git to figure out the universe' cheat code to summon tanks out of the sky gta style

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It fires a .410 round. The barrel is rifled by law because it can fire a .45 Colt round. Therefore the .410 range is short because the

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rifling twist the shot and spreads the pattern. Short distance only and please identify your target.

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Doesn’t shot stay in the cup though? Or is it just a wad?

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Wad. Some have a plastic cup that opens as it exits the muzzle. The cup will increase the spin as it fits into the rifling.

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It's a wad

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What is is 30-40 feral mice come onto my property???

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*if there is....sorry, had a stroke

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Good for anything up to 30-50 feral groundhogs.

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Have you ever seen a ground hog get hit by a 308?

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that sounds like its extremely hard to clean up

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They didn't bother. What was left would feed the other critters. There's apparently a whole thing for using prairie dogs as target practice

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Mossberg 590 shockwave. Completely legal https://www.mossberg.com/category/series/590-shockwave/

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Not in some states

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Also how the Serbu Super Shorty is an AOW ($5 stamp) and not an SBS ($200 stamp).

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The .410 version was made for this...

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Not technically a shotgun. Designation is "firearm" or "other" because the laws are bureaucratic nonsense.

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Non-NFA firearm? I think thats the term for it

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"item"

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"object of desire"

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Due to this, it doesn't follow the same rules as "shotguns," until you try to put a stock on it then you're illegally manufacturing a SBS.

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until you put a longer barrel on it as well and then it's just a shotgun... laws are dumb.

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Unless you put an arm brace on it which totally isn't a stock. That's kosher

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Not being sarcastic, genuinely curious. Why is it illegal to have a sawed off shotgun? I imagine because it makes it easier to conceal...

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Because our gun laws are made by people with no knowledge of guns 99% of the time, so they're wildly inconsistent.

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Law makers saw a movie or something where it was to effective most likely. Like how ninja weapons are banned in a bunch of places

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Spooky nunchucks and ninja stars

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Concealment likely reason, but handguns are legal, so it's really just dumb laws.

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It came about the 1950s as a response to gangster shootings with sawn-offs.

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It's because of modifying the factory barrel length that makes it illegal.

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Still needs to be a minimum OAL of 26" if reciever is designated "shotgun" from the factory.

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Modifying the factory barrel below 18" from the bolt face, specifically. You can chop one down to 18" without a tax stamp.

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Because our major gun laws were written in 1934, 1968, and 1986 and are extremely reflective of the times they were written

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*laughs in bullpup conversion kits for rifles and shotguns*

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Incorrect barrel length has to be 18"+ overall length has to be 26"+. The act of modification doesn't make it illegal

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So making it shorter than that would be illegal. So modifying the barrel length would make it illegal.

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The act of modifying is not not what is illegal. Yes, modifying can make it illegal, but the fact that it's modified is irrelevant.

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Only if you modify it to shorter than 18". I have a shotgun with a 36" barrel and I can take a foot off and be okay.

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Do you need a new wrist after six shots?

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I have this gun, no if you know what your doing. Yes if you don't know what your doing. Very fun gun

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What's it called?

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"The Judge Taurus"

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I've shot one, it has a lot more kick than the other replies suggest. It's not gonna break a wrist, but you will feel it for sure.

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Worse than when jerking off 12 times in a row as a 13 year old who first discovered big titties?

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Only if they're not holding it right

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It's 5 rounds and only hurts when you shoot slug or .45 long Colt.

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Oh yeah the .45 long has a noticeable snap out of a Judge. The .410 is minor in comparison. It’s goofy revolver.

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It’s a* goofy revolver.

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It’s like shooting a .45

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Depends with bird or buck shot, its a little more powerful than .45, with slugs its about double the kick.

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Lol Colt is that you?

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Shooting 410 out of Judge revolver is not nice — been there done that. Out of a shotgun it’s nothing.

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Same, and while you might not actually need a new wrist, you might need new eardrums. One of the loudest experiences of my life.

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I bask in your greatness Ken M. I’m sure you’re just a tribute to the great one, but I honor you nonetheless.

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Not shooting a .410, that's basically the .22LR of the shotgun world.

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It’s still got a pretty good kick if you’re firing off buckshot. Not .500 magnum kick, but I wait for the end of a range trip if I take it.

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As far as im aware farmers use then for rats and snakes

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It's even better with my AR410. Bring it on ya giant stinging bastards!

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Can confirm, I used to shoot a .410 when I was like 10 and there was almost no recoil.

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As a kid I had .410 that weighed under 3 pounds and it kicked probably 3 times as hard as my dads heavy ass 12 gauge

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That's because it's so light

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Plus, .410 revolvers are legal in CA! A rarity to find unique guns that are legal.

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Really? When did they change that?

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Leave California for a magical world of legal guns!

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I believe that revolver with shoot either .410 or .45lc. Both are pretty hearty rounds

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And both are pretty garbage out of the revolver. The rifling of the barrel spreads the shot really fast, but the rifling is shallow, so 1/

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You kinda want your shot to spread fast if you’re shooting bees at close range

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.45 bullet will start tumbling.

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