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Fausti XF4 .410

This month’s review is something slightly different — the Fausti XF4 .410 with 32in barrels. We do use .410s at the shooting school in both over-and-under and side-by-side format for young shooters, to get them started, particularly if their upper body strength cannot deal with a larger calibre.

In the weeks prior to the shutdown that is now in place, I used a lightweight over-and-under .410 to give a few shots to the children of two regular clients so they could get their first taste of shooting. There was a little help and steering involved but between us we hit some teal and rabbit

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