I was just curious about the caliber thing because I just got a new rifled slug barrel for my mossberg 500 . And ya bout the supercook thing I forgot my password and tried to get it reset but couldn't so I just made a new one it was easier and now ivts setup on my phone
What caliber is a 4-10?
.410. It's the only shotgun designation that is denoted by actual caliber and not by guage.
I used to own a British made double rifle in 450/400 3 1/4 caliber. It was made in 1898 in London by William Evans. It was a classic British stopping rifle that was used by the professional ivory hunters. It fired a 400 grain bullet at 2150 fps. The actual caliber was .411. Interstingly, I could shoot .410 shotgun ammo in the thing. The rim diameter of both shells were close enough that the .410 shells would catch on the extracters. This let me do some cheap practice with the gun to get used to the feel of it. Without being able to do that, I wouldn't have been able to afford to shoot it much. Loaded ammo went for $11 a round before I started handlading for it and handloads still went for a little better than $4 a pop.
Alas, I no longer own the gun. Someone wanted it more than I do and when he offered me a $5000 profit on the gun, I parted ways with it.
Cheers :cowboy
What caliber is a 4-10?
.410. It's the only shotgun designation that is denoted by actual caliber and not by guage.
I used to own a British made double rifle in 450/400 3 1/4 caliber. It was made in 1898 in London by William Evans. It was a classic British stopping rifle that was used by the professional ivory hunters. It fired a 400 grain bullet at 2150 fps. The actual caliber was .411. Interstingly, I could shoot .410 shotgun ammo in the thing. The rim diameter of both shells were close enough that the .410 shells would catch on the extracters. This let me do some cheap practice with the gun to get used to the feel of it. Without being able to do that, I wouldn't have been able to afford to shoot it much. Loaded ammo went for $11 a round before I started handlading for it and handloads still went for a little better than $4 a pop.
Alas, I no longer own the gun. Someone wanted it more than I do and when he offered me a $5000 profit on the gun, I parted ways with it.
Cheers :cowboy
Good answer Flags,I was wondering who would pick up on it. Hunter safety course 101.
I'll repeat a little trivia I posted before somewhere. back in the old days in merry olde england gauge was determined by how many round balls of the same exact size could be formed from a pound of lead. 16 gauge made exactly 16 1oz balls and 28 gauge -28, and I think those are the only currently used true gauge sizes. 20,12 and 410 are not true gauges by that method.
so anyways back to my original question the 12 gauge slug is more or less 45-50 cal. i was just wantin to know for when i start huntin with it during gun season
