Will CCI .22LR shotshells kill a 6" long rat at 10-30'?

Eagleye said:
At 10' "maybe"; at 30' never! That #12 shot is useless at any distance at all. Dave.
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I tried shooting a squirrel in a tree with them. It was stealing all the walnuts. I shot it once and it dropped the nuts, so I shot it again, it shook its head and glared down at me. I loaded up a standard .22 and shot it, plop dead. When I checked the carcass there were two quarter size patches of bare skin where the shot loads hit. So IMHO the .22 shot shells are pretty much useless.
 
The suggestion that .22 rimfire shotshells are useless is a malicious and unfair characterization of their potential. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is better on the day you want to hunt butterflies.
 
Longwalker said:
The .22 shot shells can be very effective rat shells at up to 30 ft. But there is a catch. You must shoot them form a smoothbore .22. I have a Remington target master single shot bolt. When I first started using it, after many years of farm pest control with standard .22's it really opened my eyes! The .22 shot cartridges used in a rifled barrel are novelty / noise status and only effective on sparrows and blackbirds up to 10-15 ft, My smoothbore is able to kill pigeons and rats cleanly at double that distance. Don't despair if you only have a standard .22 - you must be very close, but I have killed dozens of rats that way with a rifled bore.
#12 shot is far safer to shoot inside barns where a ricochet of even a .22 CB cap might break an electric wire or puncture a water line. The shells are actually called "rat shot" in some circles.
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A man who knows of what he speaks.

Rifled .22 bore and these things are beyond useless. The pattern is more like a donut, with a big gap in the middle.

Wonder if there is a an easy way to "fill" the rifling on an old .22 to create a quasi-smoothbore? There aren't many smoothbores around anymore!

CB's will put holes in things you don't want to have holes in...
 
Work great for inside a building that you do not want to damage . I cleaned several pigeons out of the upper floor of my Quonset with them. They were able to get under the floorboards to nest so I would wait til one poked his head out and shoot. Probably 8-10 '
Had to tear up some floor sheeting to recover some.
 
nowarningshot said:
My only thought if you are thinking of doing this in the Lower Mainland, is that the 22 shot shells will be less effective than the 6 RCMP with C8's will be at shooting a Geologist.
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Yup! I have a chicken coop in the backyard and I am very low profile when I shoot rats with my BB gun. Always after dark and I make sure I'm in the corner of the coop that's not visible to my neighbors, they can probably hear the noise but I doubt they know what or where it came from. Plus it usually only takes one or two shots to kill the buggers as I'm up close and personal when I blow their brains out...
 
canucklehead said:
A man who knows of what he speaks.

Rifled .22 bore and these things are beyond useless. The pattern is more like a donut, with a big gap in the middle.

Wonder if there is a an easy way to "fill" the rifling on an old .22 to create a quasi-smoothbore? There aren't many smoothbores around anymore!

CB's will put holes in things you don't want to have holes in...
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Ayup. Pattern them on paper before you shoot them at anything you really want dead.

If you don't mind reaming out a barrel to make a smoothbore, or buying one already that way, they work, sorta. Otherwise, just burnt money.

Cheers
Trev
 
I have, and still use, 22 shotshells from CCI, and very old stock CIL that has the taper crimped brass. I have been amusing myself with these since I was a toddler. I let the kids use them to pop at mice at camp, if they are close, it actually will kill one, but not always before the little bastard get under or behind something.

Boomer said it right, good for hunting butterflies. For anything else forget it. Not too many people have smoothbore 22's from which to kill anything past ten feet.

Would you use #6 lead 12ga shotshells to hunt deer? Same thing using these on anything you want dead and not just annoyed or injured.
 
Got Juice? said:
yup... even at 15' it is questionable... and rats are tough buggers
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and you ain't kidding! We had rats move into our duck shack one winter. I was whacking them with a shovel when I discovered them and even put 240 lbs of weight on the handle with the blade on the rats body! That SOB ran off alive! I then went and got my .22 revolver loaded with 22 bird shot, saw a big one crawling along the 2x4 where the roof and wall met, shot it three times, it stopped looked at me hard, I think it was about to lunge at me, I got spooked, went and grabbed a 410, the hell with wood damage, that rat had to go! Then I got an idea to hook up a hose to the exhaust pipe on the diesel tow truck and stick it in the duck shack. Didn't find any rats under the straw, and found out later that a gas engine would have done the job much better! I couldn't believe the colors of these rats, I thought all rats were all brownish, but not so, some were white, black and multi color! Very hideous!
 
daka said:
If .22LR cant kill a rat at 30yds,why was I carrying rimfire for a rabbit that sometimes stops 150-200 yds down in a deep snow...???

What i am missing here????
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Um... Every word posted by the op. And every post afterwards.

Btw I'd like to see those 200 yard shots on rabbits in deep snow. Got any vids?
 
Shot a 7 " rat out of the patio door with a 22 short, was blurry in the scope at 15 feet. knocked him off the birdfeeder. he climbed back up (I gut shot him. terrible I know) and continued eating. dropped the weaver tip off scope off and shot him with a headshot. they are tough buggers. I don't believe the shotshell is a viable option. Trap or shoot the beast with a proper bullet/pellet from a high velocity airgun. I assume that poison is out due to domestic animals/ non pest wild animals?
 
Set up a piece of paper at 10' and one at 20'. Fire .22 shotshell and see if there is even one hole in paper. I couldn't- shells R useless, I tossed out the rest of the box.
 
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