fourten shotgun resource site (.410 gauge)

Alas, no longer available for 8 shillings

This Web Site is an attempt to link together a series of Web sites (plus other useful information) specifically for the Fourten shotgun (.410) user, collector and reloader.

Shooting this diminutive shotgun is a minority sport in the UK and information about, and for, the Fourten shotgun hard to come by.

Can you help with any of our queries?

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Whats New

Previously published articles on the .410

Leeds, Fort Nelson, The Tower of London and Louisville, Kentucky

Featured websites

After a New Gun?

January 2010
Stephen Compton shows how to make a .410 Slug swaging die
December 2009
Marshall Williams looks at some Mini Shells (OK, they are 12 bore but with .410 sized payloads!)
December 2009
Tim Woodhouse goes .410 Hunting for Quail and Woodcock
December 2009
Marshall Williams looks at some Mini Shells (OK, they are 12 bore but with .410 sized payloads!)
June 2009
Tim Woodhouse on .410 Chambersizes
May 2009
Webley & Scott .410 pistol, 1935
Jan 2009
Tim Woodhouse's articles, including Small Gauge Hunting practice with skeet
Courtesy of Shotgun Sports Magazine
Dec. 2008
Marshall Williams and the Polywad Gram Crak-R Loads
Courtesy of Shotgun Sports Magazine
October.2008
National Smallbore Champs Results
and Report from Tim Woodhouse
August.2008
Write your own message in the Guestbook
June.2008
Tim Woodhouse and The 2 faces of the .410
Jan.2008
Tim Woodhouse investigates TShot
Oct.2007
Wylye Valley Small Gauge National Championships results
July.2007
Ron Goodge has Nearly a life with a 410
June.2007
Fun Patterning 410 loads
May. 2007
Tim Woodhouse revisits the Rem 1100 Special Sporting with reloading tips
May.2007
New URL! We are now
www.fourten.org.uk
and www.4-10.co.uk
March. 2007
BASC 2007 World Champs, 7th July
See below (also www.midwalesshootingcentre.com)

Whats Not So New .......

We are indebted to Marshall Williams for being able to publish his thoughts and experiences with "The Maligned .410 bore", An Article on the Marbles Gamegetter, Contributions to our Messages Pages, and ALOOF and Related articles (Articles reprinted from Shotgunsports magazine and Gun Digest/Krause Publications plus 0thers!).

Many thanks also to Tim Woodhouse for his innumerable very knowledgable articles.

We also wish to give our thanks to Robert Sears for being allowed to publish his article "Should a .410 be in your battery" (previously published in the "American Rifleman").

We are also very grateful to N. Bird for permission to publish his excellent article The .410 shotgun - versatile and efficient (previously published in "Shooting news")

Featured

Stephen Compton has put a huge amount of research into developing blueprints for a .410 slug swaging die

World .410 Skeet Championships
Shoot Offs(Video)

2006
2007
2008

Because Its There!

American & British .410 Shotguns

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Because it's there!

CLIMBING THE NORTH FACE OF THE .410

2nd massive, fully revised and extended edition.

10 new chapters , 60% more material.

Every possible aspect of shooting the .410 is extensively covered.
Game, Sporting Clays, Skeet, Mini FITASC, Cartridges, Reloading, Shot sizes & hardness, Chokes, Wads, History, Extensive Shot performance, Velocity, Energy & Penetration charts, Gun tests: Over & unders, side by sides, autos, pumps, shot pistols, Comparison with the 28bore.The 'lost gauges' of 32 & 24 bore and much more.

Only £24.99 plus.p&p (UK Price)

UK Customers:
Clayshooting Books
Books can be bought online at: www.shootingbooks.co.uk

UK Customers:
By fax (24hrs) on 01722-716052
By phone during office hours Mon-Fri using Visa, Switch or MasterCard
credit cards on 01722-716052
Or finally by post using the coupon in the book shop section of
Clayshooting Magazine.

USA Customers:
Carol Barnes
Gunnerman Books
P.O. Box 81697
Rochester Hills, MI 48308, USA
Phone 248-608-2856 VISA and MasterCard accepted
e-mail: Gunnermanbks@att.net

For signed copies (Inc. International deliveries):-

Email spitfireammunition@btopenworld.com

Also available from ..
Paul Morgan    Old & New Books on Fishing & Field Sports
Coch-y-bonddu Books, Machynlleth, Wales SY20 8DJ, U.K.
UK Tel 0870 300 2004         From overseas +44 1654 702837
UK Fax 01654 702857         From overseas +44 1654 702857
email orders@anglebooks.com      http://www.anglebooks.com

American & British 410 Shotguns
Ronald S. Gabriel

Hardcover 208 pages.
Publisher: Krause Publications
ISBN: 0873496795

Representing the culmination of 30 years of research, this book catalogues the 125-year developmental history of the 410 in both Britain and the United States. Coverage includes makers such as Browning, Ithaca, Winchester, Boss, Holland & Holland, Purdey and others.

Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk

Richard Powell Slugs

BASC .410 "World Championships" 2009

Report & Results

Free Targets

We Require information on..

Load a handfull of slugs into your Safir T14 ;-) and have a plink at this lot ...
If you have a computer and a decent printer, load it up with reasonably thick A4 paper/card (we use 160 g per sq metre) and print out the particular targets you require.

targetscomplete.pdf

Trapshooting on the Computer
couldn't resist this bit of fun! (Ignore the reference to Skeet!!)

Reloading Web sites (for the Fourten) for Cases , Primers, Powders, Wads etc. Reloading Equiptment (Presses, scales, measures etc.) Info on History, Guns, Cartridges & Manufacturers/Suppliers stocking .410 bits and pieces, Pages from old catalogues, adverts, cartridge boxes etc. for the Nostalgia pages, Relevant books etc. etc. etc. --- Email :-

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UK Police Firearms Guidance

Food for Thought

Watch out for ...

This is an interesting guide and contains the UK Home Office interpretation of current UK Firearms regulations and is an essential tool for the UK Firearms collector or Ammunition collector.
The file is a .pdf file (Adobe Acrobat format) and is 872 KBytes.
Right click the following link and 'Save Target As..' onto your hard disk.
Home_Office_Police_Guide

Other UK Home Office Firearms documents.

The following are the June 2003 records for the American National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA) for the longest runs in regulation comp. without missing a target!