Has anyone used slugs In .410 for deer hunting. I would think that shots less then 30 yards would be OK. Any thoughts on the subject?

At 30 yards, in the boiler room, they will kill just fine. I know..

Are they legal now in Wisconsin Beav?
I recall that years back they were not.
One way or another there are so many better choices.

Zim

I'm hunting In a very congested area and I just thought a 410 would be the ideal set up. I will have to check on the legality.

Same thought.....pretty sure they're not legal


.410 slugs are marketed for home defense.

I'm betting you may be right. But wouldn't It be more effective then an arrow or a bolt?

Some .410 slugs are rated for deer hunting, I got a 5 count box of old ones that I never shot. It would really help to have a shotgun with a set-up for slugs to use them, of course. It's a big bullet I can't see why it wouldn't take a deer at 30 yards if you could shoot in the heart/lung area.

A slug kills through hydrostatic shock, blades kill through laceration.

Where you plan on hunting, W State Street?

When I was a 6 year old kid I shot a buck with an Eastern Arms double barrel 410. Had a slug in one barrel and a load of 00 buckshot (3 pellets I believe) in the other barrel. At about 25 yards the buck had 4 holes in his chest. Dad said any of them would have been fatal. Only deer I shot with that gun but boy did we get lots of small game with it (and still use it today).

Beav not legal in wi for deer

20 ga slug is great.ventilates real well-in one side and out the other.
410 not so great.
I love a 20 ga.I carried a savage 222/20 for years in the bush.Could kill anything.

My Father killed his first buck with a .410 pumpkin ball back in the 1940s with a single shot gun. Because that’s all he had.

Today, few hunters would ( or should ) venture out for deer armed like that.

One shot Isn't going to cut It on State Street. LOL

I bet if you had a gun set up to shoot them, they would be just fine out to 75 at least. Get used to your gun, know where it shoots, know its limitations. I'll bet you could kill more deer than 50% of the people deer hunting with guns they never site in and only take out of the house once a year.

Well yeah....I'm sure many of us also have stories of dropping deer with a .22 also.

A savage 220 is a nice gun!!

If I needed a gun and wanted a 20 gauge for shooting slugs, that would be the one I’d buy.

Great gun.

unless the regs changed this year the 410 is not a legal gun to hunt deer with in WI. unless it is one of those 410-45lc and you use the colt cartridge. in a rifle area.

if your in a congested area a small stand the get you up 5-6 feet will have you shooting at a decent down angle or pick your location to sit on a rise and shoot down.

pick your shots well and make sure you hit the deer

Don’t mean to split hairs Pike River. But ... a slug kills by blunt force trauma, and punching holes in vital organs, heart, lungs, liver, spine etc etc. Roy Weatherby coined the phrase “Hydrostatic Shock”. It describes the phenomenon of liquids not being compressible and becoming secondary projectiles when pushed out of the way by the primary projectiles shockwave. Mr. Weatherby claimed this phenomenon occurred when projectiles traveling at speeds exceeding 2800fps encounter high water content tissue, lungs for example. The result can be easily observed by the amount of “bloodshot” meat around the wound channel with high velocity cartridges . There is a saying among old timers that with the slower cartridges, 45/70 for example “you can eat right up to the hole”. This is also the reason that small, high velocity bullets often kill more quickly than slower heavier bullets that actually penetrate better. The smaller faster bullet “dumps” more energy through hydrostatic shock even though the heavier bullet penetrates sometimes twice as much. And every bullet that exits the off side of the animal takes with it energy that was not transferred to the animal. Conversely a heavy slower bullet may have the penetration to get to the vitals of a large heavy animal whereas a lighter and faster projectile might not.
As always hope this helps.

Beav ol' pal, if you are going to hunt in a residential area, buy yourself a good crossbow.
It makes very little noise and with a good scope you can hit a 50 cent piece at 30 yards.
Use a decent broadhead and the deer will be dead quicker than the 410 idea.
No matter what, ain't nothing better than a good blood trail thru the neighbor ladies' petunia patch.

Zim

Does a (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) of a job on a 2x4. Under 30 yards it will stop a deer.