Posted: 7/19/2010 12:59:29 PM EDT
| Anybody ever have issues with shooting rat shot out of a semi-auto? Thanks! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Other than they won't feed or cycle properly, no problems at all.  +1 Wont cycle the slide. Have to rack the slide each time. That wouldn't even work with the 45 ACP shot loads I had, they wouldn't go up the feed ramp even cycled by hand. I had to load them in one at a time. The 22 shot rounds I had fed, just wouldn't cycle, they were also useless against anything bigger than a parakeet and more than 3 feet away. I wound up giving the 45 loads to a buddy who had a 45 ACP revolver. That was my last experiment with shot loads in a semi auto. Now the 44 mag shot loads worked great, I took quite a few grouse with them during deer season. |
Rat shot, a topic close to my heart.  Short version answer....#8's loaded in 38's are very effective. DO NOT use 12 shot, it just PO's the rats. For autos the only one I've used is CCI's factory 45ACP and it runs like water through my custom 1911. It's also very deadly on prairie rattlers. Since there's very little practical difference between #8 and #9 shot I wouldn't worry that issue. I just preferred 8's because that's what I reloaded for trapshooting.
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