[marktwain]

15 yards is about the maximum effective range for the #12 shot on small pests.

[marktwain]

Ping for Garden Gun/ .22 shotshell article.

[caver]

Ha! I guess it works but is funny looking. And you need some room to maneuver that thing in the garden.

[yarddog]

I used to carry a Single Six with the .22 mag cylinder. The first shot was a CCI shot cartridge.

They were pure poison on snakes up to around 10 feet. After that, mostly useless.

[PTBAA]

That set up ensures that you maintain the correct social distance from the varmint before shooting it.

[Zhang Fei]

Why not just use a pistol?

[mouser]

Henry arms makes a 22 smooth bore lever action gun
https://www.henryusa.com/shotgun/garden-gun-smoothbore-22/

[Tijeras_Slim]

One of my interests is .22 smoothbores. I have a Remington with a Rouledge bore and it does pattern nicely compared to the others (which aren't bad). The Mossberg Targo has a short oversized tube that screws on the end, as well as a rifled tube.

Remington promoted their Mo-Skeet-o minature trap with the "Routledge Girls".

[Beagle8U]

Since you are getting the improved patterns with a 30” overbore tube, it might make more sense to put the tube on a pistol?

A pistol with a 34” barrel might be less unwieldy than a rifle with 5 foot barrel?

Before I spent too much time on 5 foot plastic 22 cal barrels, I would design a choke tube to screw on the end of a 22 cal rifle.

A ‘jug choke’ isn’t that hard to make and it would look less goofy than a 5 foot barrel.

[samadams2000]

Is this also quieter? Asking for a friend.

[2111USMC]

Sch 20 pvc is considerably lighter than sch 40 pvc. Because of the geometries involved, a thin tube is stiffer than a thick tube of the same weight.

Dean, for some reason I'm having trouble understanding this statement. I would think a thick walled tube would be more rigid than a thin walled tube. If you're basing it on weight, then obviously the thick walled tube would be shorter than a thin walled tube of the same weight. What am I missing?