Sounds like what I want Beta and BootyJudge to do.
The 10 foot patterns shown are very similar to the 30 ones I have gotten using a Remington 514 smoothbore, and especially one with a Routledge bore. Ones out of a Mossberg Targo 42T (which also has a screw on rifled tube for regular ammo) and a Krinko semi auto are a bit more open.
The older crimp type shotshells pattern better in a smoothbore than the CCI capsule types.
I'm gonna have to check out a choke for my old {from the early 60s} Remington bolt action 22.
I've been shooting chippies for years using # 12 shot, but the range is iffy at 20-25 feet.
Anything closer is an absolute kill but those critters are quick and skittish.
When I get over run by chippies I use "The Bucket of Death".
It's a 5 gallon bucket, half filled with water covered with sunflower seeds and a 3' board covered with the seed leading up to the edge of the bucket.
Nature and chippy greed take over, and they jump into "The Bucket of Death".
The most I've ever had to pull out when I "drain the bucket" is eight dead chippies, and that was in a 24 hour period from when I set up the bucket.
Probably not for the absent minded? Would this be too tight for a normal bullet round?
My experience is, using a Winchester .22 semi-auto rifle, is the shot shell does not have enough power to work the action, so it becomes a manual operated rifle, and at about 30 or so feet you get a doughnut shaped pattern due to rifling in the barrel.
How does a 22 shot shell work in a 6” 22lr pistol barrel?
So..Ammoland never heard of the Remington 514?
That was a smoothbore 22cal made for shooting 12 shot.
Back when it was still legal, the Rem 514 was pretty good for frog hunting and shooting rats. Now it is illegal to shoot frogs with anything in MI.
They work good on mice. Fun too—quiet enough to shoot in a skeezy appt.
Don’t ask me how I know this....
I used it to do what generations of "old folks" have sworn can't be done... breaking a dog from killing chickens. When I was done neither Cooter nor Otto would eat even KFC. They had a little white hen that stood in their food pan eating and slept in their doghouse in winter.
There’s a .22WMR version, too. I shot a BIG rat with one right in my kitchen cupboard once.
I searched
WINGO.
Guess it was a
One off deal.
.20 shell in a lever
Action ,,,,
I may still have
some left over ammo.