![]() ![]() ![]() At 7 yards, the pattern was nice and tight, clustering most of the shot in the inner 10 inches of a 12-inch circle. When shooting, I engaged the targets at two distances: 7 yards and 10 yards. If you’d rather put a sling on it, there are sling swivel studs already installed. ![]() 410 weighs in at almost 7.5 pounds, but it’s still light enough to be carried through the woods comfortably while in search of small game. There’s a brass bead on the front, no rear sight, and it’s not drilled or tapped. If iron sights aren’t your thing, the receiver is also drilled and tapped for a scope of your choice. The combination of the bead front sight and the adjustable rear sight made it very easy to acquire the sights and get the gun on target quickly.Īdjustment is easy and, as expected, the shotgun put pellets right where the sights were aimed. The adjustable rifle sights make it easy to regulate patterns with a variety of birdshot and slugs to handle anything from small game birds through cottontails to fox and coyotes, varmints and pest control. The rear sight is an adjustable semi-buckhorn with a white diamond insert and the front sight is a brass bead. The sights are unusual for a shotgun, but effective. The 24-inch model comes with a Browning-type Invector-style full choke from the factory, that can be switched out with other screw-in chokes of your choice. The 20-inch model has a cylinder bore with no choke, making it safe to shoot slugs. I had no issues with any of the boxes of rounds I cycled through the gun. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the Henry shotgun performed just like their rifles. 410’s action is as smooth as fresh-churned ice cream and just as sweet. Load five 2.5-inch shells (don’t try to cram in six, or use 3-inch shells), push the follower down, and twist to secure it. You load the new Henry lever-action shotgun the same way you load a Henry rifle: Twist the follower and pull it up past the loading port. I could have driven a few towns over and scrounged the shelves there for other options (including slugs), but I couldn’t wait to get back home and put some rounds down range. So I picked up a couple boxes of the only option available: 2.5-inch Remington American Clay & Field shells, ½ ounce of size 8 shot. 410 shotgun shells aren’t the first thing to fly off the gun-store shelf. At first glance, you wouldn’t realize that it’s a shotgun. When I picked up the gun from Sportsman’s Finest, it was exactly what I expected: a standard white Henry box sheltering a lever-action blued steel and American walnut long gun. I spent some time comparing the two on their website and opted to go with the 20-inch model for review. Henry makes these new lever-action shotguns in 24-inch and 20-inch models. ![]()
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