Thread: it can happen to anyone! Please be safe

Originally Posted by omark

I don’t understand why for pest control people don’t use 410s and ring around all the neighbours to tell them prior. Much safer.

Yes they can be, but in some places not easy to feed and also not as common as bog standard 12ga. Short shells can be quite useful for pest work if you can get the right loads - a mate was using light clay target loads for relatively short range rabbit work and with the right choke setup they were quite nice to use. Lead pellets though, so not everyone can use those...