Posted By: Larry in SD
SST Super 14 .45 Colt / .410 Vent Rib - 10/05/2008 4:50 PM
Well guys I haven't done anything stupid lately and decided I was overdue. A couple weeks ago I ordered a SST Super 14 .45 Colt / .410 Vent Rib Contender Barrel. Well it arrived on Friday. I had great plans to do some pattern testing this weekend and maybe try my hand at shooting a clay bird or two, but our famous South Dakota Wind has been rearing it's ugly head all weekend and this morning I woke up to rain.
At any rate I am sure you are all aware of the Kid with a new Toy syndrome. Well last night I just had to take the .410 Contender Handgun with me to work. I have been having a real problem with Skunks this year. The grubs are horrible and the skunks are litterally tearing yards apart. A buddies yard looks like some one chisel plowed it, so I have been making a nightly drive past his place and so far managed to kill 3 skunks and a raccoon there.
Well last night I drove past his place and low and behold there was a skunk on the north edge of his yard, out about 20 yards. By the time I got the .410 Contender in my hands the skunk decided he had stuck around way to long and took off running. Well I swung the bead on the end of the Vent Rib in front of the skunk and pulled the trigger.
Imagine my surprise when the skunk rolled with the first shot and was absoluately motionless. I was shooting a Federal Power Shok 3" # 6 Shot .410 Shotshell. I was kind of shocked that #1 I hit the skunk on the run and #2 that the .410 killed it stone dead at what had to be about 25 yards.
Now granted shooting a running skunk with a .410 Contender Handgun is going to be a lot different than trying to shoot Birds on the Wing, but the way I look at it is this "If I can hit a running skunk I just MIGHT have a chance at getting to eat some Pheasant Fajitas this fall yet.
Thanks for reading.
Larry
At any rate I am sure you are all aware of the Kid with a new Toy syndrome. Well last night I just had to take the .410 Contender Handgun with me to work. I have been having a real problem with Skunks this year. The grubs are horrible and the skunks are litterally tearing yards apart. A buddies yard looks like some one chisel plowed it, so I have been making a nightly drive past his place and so far managed to kill 3 skunks and a raccoon there.
Well last night I drove past his place and low and behold there was a skunk on the north edge of his yard, out about 20 yards. By the time I got the .410 Contender in my hands the skunk decided he had stuck around way to long and took off running. Well I swung the bead on the end of the Vent Rib in front of the skunk and pulled the trigger.
Imagine my surprise when the skunk rolled with the first shot and was absoluately motionless. I was shooting a Federal Power Shok 3" # 6 Shot .410 Shotshell. I was kind of shocked that #1 I hit the skunk on the run and #2 that the .410 killed it stone dead at what had to be about 25 yards.
Now granted shooting a running skunk with a .410 Contender Handgun is going to be a lot different than trying to shoot Birds on the Wing, but the way I look at it is this "If I can hit a running skunk I just MIGHT have a chance at getting to eat some Pheasant Fajitas this fall yet.
Thanks for reading.
Larry