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November 2020
Richard Gledhill looks at some subsonic cartridges
December 2016
ALOOF looks at skeet chokes for the .410
December 2016
Marshall has brought this gun to our attention  The IFG Howdah 45/410 Double-Barrel Pistol  ... Nice!
December 2014
Tim Woodhouse and Richard Oldfield present an  Ode to the lighter load
October 2014
Tim Woodhouse investigates  Blown patterns and balled shot
July 2012
Tim Woodhouse come up with some cracking  410 3/4oz loads for clays
June 2012
Marshall Willams tries the  American Tactical Imports (ATI) .410 Slugs
May 2012
Steve Thornhill undertakes a major  Rossi Squire makeover project with stock re-shaping and barrel re-blacking
August 2011
Marshall Williams and  .45/.410 Derringer
June 2011
A New book on Shotgun Performance Sporting Shotgun Performance - Measurement, Analysis and Optimisation by Dr Andrew Jones. Possibly the most complete book on Shotgun Performance there is. (Follow link, then click on the 'orders' pages to have a preview of the book)
March 2011
Marshall Williams and  The Taurus Judge and Self Defense Ammunition
March 2011
Marshall Williams and ALOOF on Savage Fourtenners
Courtesy of Shotgun Sports Magazine
November 2010
Tim Woodhouse on The Relentless Rise of the Small Bores
November 2010
Nick Wilson's article on British Firearms Controls, Part 1 : No Controls
August 2010
Tim Woodhouse on Firearms Control
July 2010
Tim Woodhouse goes Playing on the Skeet field
May 2010
Tim Woodhouse shows that Without lead, the .410 is dead
January 2010
Stephen Compton shows how to make a .410 Slug swaging die

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 excellent 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")

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

Click for details
Because it's there!

CLIMBING THE NORTH FACE OF THE .410

Tim Woodhouse

2nd massive, fully revised and extended edition.

 10 new chapters , 60% more material.

 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

This is an interesting guide and contains the UK Home Office interpretation of current UK Firearms (cicra 2010)  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.