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Posted: 3/4/2008 11:03:11 PM EDT
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what have ya'll killed with .22 shotshell ammo and from what distance. I'm just interested as I just bought my first .22 after 3 ARs and 3 AKs lol I know i shoulda went for the .22 first much cheaper lol. I got a Henry Repeating Arms AR7 Survival Rifle I kind ofsee it as a novelty but it was accurate enough on steel plates at the rane after i picked it up. I havn't shot any groups but i was packing it in a backpack along with some ammo as kind of hiking bag and was wondering wtf could a little shotshell .22 possibly take down and from what range. I'm guessing nothing more than a humming bird from 3 yards 
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I use them to kill carpenter bees around the house and barn, they work good out to 15-20' for that and don't damage the house. When I bought the place four years ago we where over run with them literally hundreds of them, every year I have killed 100-150 or more with a Rossi revolver. Each season I see less and less,this year I hope to only see a few, I was told for every one you kill it prevents 10 more from being born the following year. The largest critter I ever killed with them was a flying squirrel in the kitchen at about 4 feet. |
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Many years ago, while drinking beer in a buddy's driveway, we saw a rat run into an old trash pile he had behind the house. Buddy1 decided to get his .22 to try out some of the new CCI shot shells he just bought. He took a drunken aim and missed the rat which ran further into the trash. Buddy2 laughed at him for missing. Buddy1 swore he hit it dead center, but the ammo was crap. Buddy1 claimed it was so bad that Buddy2 could shoot him in the ass with it and it wouldn't penetrate his Levi's. Buddy2 declined, but I'll be damned if he wasn't drawing a bead on Buddy1's ass a couple more beers later. Buddy1 was bent over pointing his ass square at Buddy2 when Buddy2 pulled the trigger. There was a puff of dust that came off of Buddy1's Levi's and he jumped straight up in the air when the charge hit him. He spent the rest of the night across his wife's lap while she worked with a pair of tweezers pulling about a hundred small shot out of his ass. He declined the Emergency Room a few times as he was sure they would throw him in Detox when he explained how he came to be shot. Five years later, when we were still giving him a blast of shit about it, he claimed it wasn't funny. He said he was pretty sure he still had a pellet of two in his nut sack. It definitely isn't self defense ammo. 
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| Two friends and I cleaned out a rat infestation over a period of 2 weekends. A total of 42 rats dead, in hand. Many more crawled off. We used .22, 9mm, 38, 45 and .44 mag shotshells. The patterns, for us, were much better in a shorter barreled pistol than a rifle. |
not going to top that........took out a mental case woodpecker many many years ago that had a thing for our steel chimney pipe. caught him on a tree about 8 yards from the back door....these are definitely for a lever action or pump action. I can relate to the bee story though....when I used to live in Louisiana we used a paint ball gun to deal with them during one BBQ. |
I like flies with my Crossman CO2 pellet pistol. No pellets, just the air slug will knock them for a loop... and you can do it indoors. 
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See my vole hunting thread archive.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=11&t=368540 |
| Extremely unpredictable in a rifled barrel, to such a degree I find them nothing more than a novelty. A .22 magnum shotshell fired from a smoothbore is surprisingly effective on small vermin - chipmunks, sparrows, starlings, etc. - out to around 20-25 yds. Marlin use to make one called the “garden gun". |
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