.22 shot shells
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ghostntheshell
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Can anyone explain what these rounds are even for? I remember seeing them year ago and the store keeper told me hunting mice 
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You will get a donut shaped pattern when firing .22 shotshell in an ordinary .22 rifle. This is becuse the rifling puts a spin on the shot load when it is going down the barrel, and when it exits the whole shot load is rotating, so the pellets tend to disperse due to the centrifical force imposed on them.
There were a lot of rifles made specially for shotshells. Mossberg made the "MO-SKEETO", with a smooth bore barrel, and a launcher attached to the barrel for small clay birds. Remington made some, Winchester and other makers did too.
Shooting Galleries at Carnivals used them. They also used a .22 Short cartridge designed to break up when it hit the backstop, and there were rifles made by major makers chambered for the .22 Short. These were called "Gallery Specials."
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You will get a donut shaped pattern when firing .22 shotshell in an ordinary .22 rifle. This is becuse the rifling puts a spin on the shot load when it is going down the barrel, and when it exits the whole shot load is rotating, so the pellets tend to disperse due to the centrifical force imposed on them.
There were a lot of rifles made specially for shotshells. Mossberg made the "MO-SKEETO", with a smooth bore barrel, and a launcher attached to the barrel for small clay birds. Remington made some, Winchester and other makers did too.
Shooting Galleries at Carnivals used them. They also used a .22 Short cartridge designed to break up when it hit the backstop, and there were rifles made by major makers chambered for the .22 Short. These were called "Gallery Specials."
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Wild-Wild-West
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Hey there Boots
That depends... Savage used to make a .22 Rimfire smooth bore shotgun way back when. I bought one just for laughs. They were called "Garden Guns" and meant for small rodents.
If you shoot those Rimfire shot shells out of a rifled barrel, you'll get a donut pattern. However, when shot out of a smooth bore, it patterns like any other shotgun. I used to blast mini pumpkins with that smooth bore out to about 15 yards or so. After that, you're pretty well out of luck with that light load.
w.w.w.
That depends... Savage used to make a .22 Rimfire smooth bore shotgun way back when. I bought one just for laughs. They were called "Garden Guns" and meant for small rodents.
If you shoot those Rimfire shot shells out of a rifled barrel, you'll get a donut pattern. However, when shot out of a smooth bore, it patterns like any other shotgun. I used to blast mini pumpkins with that smooth bore out to about 15 yards or so. After that, you're pretty well out of luck with that light load.
w.w.w.
Exactly....and the farmers used them on pigeons too, not wanting to put .22 cal sized holes in the barn roof.
ghostntheshell
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Interesting! Always wondered.
i farted around with them for an afternoon once. heres part of a post i made a few years ago...
ive seen posts about these before here, so i thought Id take some pictures and show how I killed an hour this afternoon.
Bird shot, barn shot, rat shot, ive seen these for sale locally for years, but never had 7 bucks to waste on these when I own several perfectly capable shotguns between .410 and 12 gauge. The other day I had 7$ to waste and decided to try a box since ive never played with .22 birdshot. I had some extra time and the range today, so i grabbed it on my way out the door to see how it does.
Its federal brand, 50 to a box as usual. Its sealed with star crimp and contains 25 grains of #12 lead shot. I used a H&R 9 shot .22 revolver and an old cooey 39 to shoot em.
left to right, fired shell, unfired shell, standard .22lr 40grain
the cooey 75 and h&r revolver i fired the shot with
pics of patterns
I shot some butcher paper, and at only 5 yards, the rifle shot in about an 8'' circle, at 10 yards, it open up to over 12''. The handgun at 5 yards was 6 or 7'', and about 10'' at 10 yards. I was really surprised at the amount of spread.
another surprise was how small a #12 pellet actually is. the holes in the paper from the shot are smaller than the holes from the thumb tacks holding the paper up.
the targets were tacked up to a peice of 1/4'' plywood and alot of times it didnt even pentrate the paper and just bouced off leaving a slight indent and marked by the lead. ive got about 35 left, so maybe next time I have an afternoon to waste ill see how much penetration I can get on layers of cardboard.
ive seen posts about these before here, so i thought Id take some pictures and show how I killed an hour this afternoon.
Bird shot, barn shot, rat shot, ive seen these for sale locally for years, but never had 7 bucks to waste on these when I own several perfectly capable shotguns between .410 and 12 gauge. The other day I had 7$ to waste and decided to try a box since ive never played with .22 birdshot. I had some extra time and the range today, so i grabbed it on my way out the door to see how it does.
Its federal brand, 50 to a box as usual. Its sealed with star crimp and contains 25 grains of #12 lead shot. I used a H&R 9 shot .22 revolver and an old cooey 39 to shoot em.
left to right, fired shell, unfired shell, standard .22lr 40grain
the cooey 75 and h&r revolver i fired the shot with
pics of patterns
I shot some butcher paper, and at only 5 yards, the rifle shot in about an 8'' circle, at 10 yards, it open up to over 12''. The handgun at 5 yards was 6 or 7'', and about 10'' at 10 yards. I was really surprised at the amount of spread.
another surprise was how small a #12 pellet actually is. the holes in the paper from the shot are smaller than the holes from the thumb tacks holding the paper up.
the targets were tacked up to a peice of 1/4'' plywood and alot of times it didnt even pentrate the paper and just bouced off leaving a slight indent and marked by the lead. ive got about 35 left, so maybe next time I have an afternoon to waste ill see how much penetration I can get on layers of cardboard.
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Very interesting. Thanks. What is the barrel Leigh on that cooey?
Can anyone explain what these rounds are even for? I remember seeing them year ago and the store keeper told me hunting mice
A friend had an old hunting cabin one time ago, we used these .22 shotshells to shoot the mice. We'd have a few drinks by the fire and shoot the mice as they tried to get to the kitchen.
Major Sights
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Where can you get this stuff?
