10/22 shotgun

bj426

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well... I'm sure anyone reading this is wondering what the ____ I'm thinkin.....

well... here it is... lets say you have only one shotgun and want to bring someone with you that doesn't have one... or you don't have a shotgun at all BUT you have a 10/22 and the local shop has .22lr shotshells

I have no experience whatsoever with .22 shotshells.... could this concievably be an acceptable form of hunting grouse/partrige/pheasant?

I'm sure that the pattern would be rather small... but in the case of having a high cap mag and a quick finger... I would think it would work. no doubt this may or may not be a very affordable method (depending on shooter accuracy and style)

also do the shotshells put any extra wear on the barrel?

thanks for any input
 
A tiny charge of #12 shot in a donut pattern would be unlikely to produce hits...or to penetrate feathers when it does past several feet.
 
forget about killing anything bigger than a meadow mole or mouse with the 22 lr shotshells, heck you will have to be real close to kill the afore mentioned critters!!!!I fired at a streched to the limit balloon at 25 feet and didn't bust it with the 22 shotshell from my rifle
 
Marlin makes a 22WMR shotgun. It's smooth-bored and made to fire the 22WMR shotshells only. I wouldn't trust my life to one, but it may be fun for varmint plinking.
 
It won't work, but WalMart sells a decent NEF 12 gauge break open w/ modified choke for $78.
 
The pattern is probably going to by extremely small, and I question whether the shells would feed as well.
Z
 
The Remington .22 shotshells will wound or kill rats or snakes at a range of two to three feet--from experience. Maybe two or three pellets struck. I haven't tried the CCI shot shells with the blue plastic dealies, but some comments here a year or so back indicated they're no better than the Remington.

Shotshells generally won't cycle a semi-auto.

The least expensive shotgun would be a single-shot, break-open. Whatever you decide to get--or your friend--take it out and shoot it at some large sheet of paper at 30 yards to at least get a feel of the pattern and where it hits for a given sight picture. The old "feel for the gun".

FWIW, Art
 
If I had not seen it, I wouldn't believe it. I saw and still don't believe it!!

I have seen people actually shoot birds on the wing using .22 LR ratshot, the old fashioned rose crimped shels at that.

I've shot at small birds at point blank ranges with .357 Mag shotshells loaded with #9 shot and the danged sparrows flew away. I did not believe it possible to kill a bird on the wing using .22 LR shot shells, but I saw it done and still don't believe it!!

Doc Hudson
 
Hi Doc,
I've heard stories like the ones you relate, and even heard rumors that some of the aerial "Trick Shooters" of the late 1800s and early 1900s used the old crimped rat shot to good effect. (They apparently didn't bother to mention the rat shot to the audience though)

I think the only way you could come close to accomplishing this would be with a smooth bored barrel. Otherwise the rifling will deform the tiny shot so badly that the pattern will be blown all to hell and your velocity will go right down the tubes.

Trying to put that shot through a rifled .22 barrel is a lost cause though.
 
For the price of enough .22 shotshells to hit anything, you could find a single-shot break top .410 shotgun ($40-60 used, at most). That and a $4 box of #8 would get you far more results than .22lr or 22wmr shot.
 
I have to agree on the .410, a perfect solution to this problem.

I have to say, I actually bagged a bird at about 8-10 yards with .22 shot on the wing, and it was the first time I ever tried it. My brother and I then tried to duplicate the feat at least 100 more times unsuccessfully. Can you spell "lucky shot"? :)
 
Hate to say it, but I think as hunters, we have a duty to kill things _HUMANELY_ and I just can't imagine a shotshell from a .22 being effective past 2-3 feet. So if you are up close on a rat, maybe, other than that, pretty hard to kill much of anything.

I'm all for .22's as home defense guns, a good shot in the eyeball will drop anybody, but I don't know about shotshells, that's asking quite a bit from low velocity BB's.

Albert
 
Calling them BB's is quite generous. These are usually 12 shot. That stuff is like dust.
 
The only experience I had with .22 shotshells was enough to convince me not to rely on them for anything ever again. Two shots from a 4" barreled revolver at a black snake from less than 3 feet away (and these were headshots too) weren't enough--it took another round, a 36 gr. hollowpoint, to do the trick. Talk about ineffective...

I've wondered the same thing about barrel wear myself though. Haven't fired enough shotshells to find out, but I don't believe they would hurt the rifling.

freedomlover
 
The 22 shotshell is great on bumblebees out to 10 feet. Anything bigger,like a mouse, takes multiple hits even at a range three feet.

Now the 45 ACP shot shell is a different story. It will knock a squirrel out of a tree top. It is halway to a .410 shotshell. The new CCI 40 S&W shot shell is likely decent, too.
 
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