Winchester 22 LR No.12 Shot

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Just picked up a box of this stuff and on the box it says for best results use a smooth bore rifle. Do I have to worry about this ammo doing damage to my barrel?. I will be shooting it with a 597 VTR.

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I don't think it will damage your barrel. One thing that seems definitive throughout experiances with it is that it is only good up to about 10 feet and even at that range it has very very little penetration and a pretty wide pattern. One thing people have experienced is the rifling in the barrel will spin the shot collumn and they will hit the target in a doughnut like shape...
 
There is nothing to protect the shot as it goes through the rifled barrel.

Many pellets will deform and leading will occur in the barrel.

But there is no irreparable damage.
 
I have used that ammo in a shot out rifle and the results were so-so as long as I didn't clean the barrel to get the lead out. Patterns were terrible with a clean barrel. With a fouled barrel, I could kill barn sparrows or rats at about 15 feet reliably.
In my smooth barrel Remington, they are deadly little vermin getters, easily kill sparrows at 40 ft or so. Pigeons are tougher, 30 ft from a smoothbore is about max.
 
There are 2 kinds. The crimped brass shells and the cci nickel plated cases with the blue plastic shot cup. The cci's work great but at $7/20 they don't kill. I use them in the barn as they won't mark tractor tires. I shot a rat once at about 15'. It turned and hissed at me. 7 more shots laid him to rest. I tried breaking stationary clay targets and one must stand at max 12' to sometimes break the target. Used it to shoot a bat in a basement once. Recked the drywall. But whacking sparrows in the cedars watchers think I'm hitting them with single projectiles and not bird shot. Its funny to see their faces when I go 9/10
 
I have tried the Winchester #12 shot rounds out of a Remington Nylon 66, a Stevens 85, a Ruger MKII and a Llama Martial and I had no "donut" patterns out any of those guns. Maximum effective range looked like 12 feet to me. No leading in the barrels I was using although I did not use an enormous amount of the stuff.
 
Marlin smoothbore .22 rifle

MARLIN has (had) a .22 cal. bolt action tube fed rifle called the GARDEN GUN. made to shoot shot. was some concern about gang bangers shooting folks with regular 22 ammo. no rifiling, hence no tracing the projectile to the firearm. that was stateside. i shoot shot loads in .38spl. 357 mag and 44 special in revolvers with no leading problems F.W.I.W. popsTWKTWK
 
m777 said:
I've had bad luck trying extracting spent cases from my 10/22. I wonder if other semi's are the same.
Clint
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I had the same problem in a bolt gun that I used to have. Had to extract the spent cases with a knife. After they opened up after firing they were too long for the chamber.
 
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