410 Snake Charmer

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2Old2Change

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I have a single shot 410 Snake Charmer, that I purchased many years ago. Thinking of strictly home security, was just thinking it might be a good one to keep handy, with possibly using slugs, or #4's in it? Has anyone ever seen anything larger than #4 shot for them? I realize it'd be a one shot deal, so if it comes to that, would prefer it be a good shot. Thanks for all your help.
 
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mikenbarb

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Shot size

Keep in mind that they also make buckshot loads for the .410 and they come in 00 or 000 with 3 or 4 pellets. They arent good for long distance but up close their pretty good.
 
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rburch

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I've had one for a few years, but never really thought of it for defense. I did shoot a trap course with mine once, but that's a different story. :D

Is yours the shoulder stock or the weird pistol version?
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Mine's the pistol version.

In any case just get some buckshot rounds for it, they'll do the job in the case of a single intruder situation. I'd still have another weapon close by in case of multiple attackers, trying to reload those things quickly isn't easy.
 
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mikenbarb

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Snakecharmer

I just came across a sweet Snake Charmer at Gander for $139.00 and I think im gonna get for the barn birds. I dont think I could go wrong at that price.
 
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Rampant_Colt

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Home defense? No...[if the bad guy is armed, you're screwed!]
Blowing **** up and breaking hand-tossed clays? Hell yeah!

These are hella fun to shoot hand-tossed clays with, except .410 ammo is kinda expensive

I'd be willing to trade my Kel-Tec P32 for a Snake Charmer
 
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Boris Bush

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Rampant_Colt

My snake charmer that I have had for 8 years now is the long gun my wife prefers for home defense when it comes to long guns........ Other than a vermin killer on the farm it doubles as a bi-pedal defense mechanism very well. She can make consistant COM hits to 40 yards easily with Federal 1/4oz slugs and from a bench COM hits are easy out to 80.

I do not know about you, but I for sure don't want to be down range if my wife ever bears down on them sights. She is less foregiving than me and will, how can I put this, bust a cap, much faster than I would.........
 
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mikenbarb

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Broke down and bought it and I actually talked them down to $120.00. Not a scratch on it and it claimed 2 barn pigeons already.:D This thing is a blast and my son and daughter ran thru 2 boxes of shells already shooting cans.
 
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Rampant_Colt

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Boris Bush said:
My snake charmer that I have had for 8 years now is the long gun my wife prefers for home defense when it comes to long guns........ Other than a vermin killer on the farm it doubles as a bi-pedal defense mechanism very well. She can make consistant COM hits to 40 yards easily with Federal 1/4oz slugs and from a bench COM hits are easy out to 80.

I do not know about you, but I for sure don't want to be down range if my wife ever bears down on them sights. She is less foregiving than me and will, how can I put this, bust a cap, much faster than I would.........
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Those little 88 grain .410 slugs have a hollow base, poor sectional density, and poor penetrating characteristics. There's a whole page on Old Painless' Box o' Truth site that proves this.

A single-shot, break-action, exposed-hammer shotgun isn't a very good choice for home defense.
To each their own...
 
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Boris Bush

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hmmmm

I had to sit here for a little bit and think........... I cann't think of a single round I use in any of my current firearms that I have not killed live animals of similar size to humans............


I have watched 120-150 pound deer gasp for air, and try to get up after being shot with said rounds............

I have read the box o truth a few times and I have yet to see tests on real flesh that was alive before it was shot.

I listened to a local expert at the range rant like a crazed preacher that a 9mm does not travel 100 yards!! Why would he rant like that? Because my buddy just set 5 clays on the 100 yard berm to shoot with his XD9......... While he did not hit all 5 with 5 shots, they were all broken before the mag was empty....

An exposed hammer 7 shot 45 caliber handgun with less ME than my wifes chosen long gun and load is not a good choice. Especialy from what I have seen it do to live animals

Moral of the story, well all of my stories at that, are I kind of take more stock in my own experience than what some truth teller tells what they think might happen to a live animal based on backyard science...............


That and I like laughing at "men" that get out shot by my wife when I take her to the range...............
 
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2Old2Change

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Mine is the "weird" pistol grip style. Originally purchased as a deterrent while driving an over the road semi. Never had to draw it, but it made me feel a lot safer while in the sleeper in some of the East Coast Truckstops.
 
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Bill DeShivs

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Never fire .45 Colt in a .410 shotgun, unless the gun was specifically designed for it!!
Chamber presures are much higher on pistol ammunition than shotgun shells.
 
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stevens double

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Recently I saw a shotgun that looks exactly like the Field Gun you have pictured. I cannot find reference to it anywhere. The one I saw was an H&R Model 099 (not 99) and was stamped MOD on the barrel top at the breech end. Black stock, not a thumbhole, 20 gauge, nickel finish and short barrel with a bead front sight. I have seen reference to Model 99's and Snake Charmers,but not Model 099, or full-stocked, short barreled, Modified choke 20 gauge types like I saw. Can ya help me?
 
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banditt007

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if .410 is what you are going to use for home defense i would choose nothing other than the 00 or 000 buckshot loads, that a previous poster mentioned that have 3 or 4 pellets in it. maybe a .410 breneke slug if they make it.
 
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ban-hater

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Is it possible to mount another stock on one of these and be legal, of course? Who would make a stock that would fit?
 
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