Looking for a red dot scope to mount on a winchester 9410. Like to keep it under 100 bucks also anyone had any good or bad experiences w deer hunting w a 410. My son has been shooting this gun like a champ this off season. Open sights hes shooting 3 in groups at 40 yards, figure a scope will tighten that group up. We won't be attempting a shot over 40 yards I'm just curious if anyone has deer hunted with one.

A guy I used to work his son hunted with a pump with a red dot and said it was stupidly accurate killed a few with it. Another guy I know his son killed a few with one and one was over 100yds. I have also shot the same gun you have and we were punchin holes at 50yds shooting free hand

Traditionalarcher17:

PLEASE look at the ballistics! Anything over 35 yards and the charts show a .410 to be useless. Sure people make a lucky shot but, with a youth hunter we want to recover every deer shot.

IDNR allowed the MOST useless round for deer hunting........... all because "other states made it legal". this was a quote from the IDNR deer biologist at the time. He knew it was wrong to do but........ license revenue trumps sound science.

Use a 20 guage!

If that's the case we will prob stick w the 50 cal ml with 50 grains of powder. That's what he used last year.

Yeah that's probably a good choice, maybe bump the powder a tad bit. The thing is a 410 slug weighs under a hundred grains. You all probably use a 240 gr bullet +/- a few grains. Anyway you get so much more knock down power with a big slow bullet. One year I used 225 gr saboted with 60 grains loose for my son when he was young.

He shot a button buck last year at around 45 yards last year w a 240 grain bullet and 50 grains of powder. Hit it little back but caught liver, deer didn't go 30 yards. He's been popped by the scope since then and is flinching shooting that now. He hasn't flinched a bit shooting the 410 so it was a thought. Doesn't sound like a good one. He's only 50 lbs so I'm trying to control the recoil so he doesn't get gun shy. Would hold him out til he grows but there's no holding him back. He's even in stands with me now on bow hunts just to be out there. No complaints about that. He actually got to see my dad shoot a doe this past weekend with a bow.

IMO you can't go wrong with a .44 and a red dot for lil guys/gals. Low recoil and good ballistics out to 100 yards+. That is what I started Luke at when he was 7 and he killed with it that year and the following 3. The red dot worked really well. Luke actually killed a doe with the red dot at Cedar Branch Farms with JB watching from a hillside.

Great hunting buddy right there. Have fun and don't blink. Time goes by fast.