Thread: 22LR smoothbore for shot shells

Anyone ever tried making a .22LR smoothbore specifically for shooting shot shells? Without the rifling, the shot string should hold together better reducing the pattern spread.

Why?

Scare the sparrows off my lawn

Poison wheat?

That takes the fun out of it

Yes I did exactly that about a month a go for a mate. He got some tube from China, it was very well finished and I think with 4.5mm bore, I cut the barrel off off a 22 Rossi and back bored to just leave the chamber. We machined the tube to size and bonded in.

He seems happy with the results and yes the smoothbore holds a much tighter pattern than rifling will, we also found that the CCI with shot capsules worked way better than the older style crimped brass.

Certainly a very limited use gun, but just the job for a particularly aggressive cockroach ha ha

There are a few in Europe. Some are chambered for a special 6mm rimfire shot cartridge.

Here they are called trøsthagle that means thrush shotgun. They and other shotguns werr licence free untill 96 I think it was?

It was mid summer.... The plastic hubcaps were becoming a problem.
One of the pesky, grey, round things was milling around outside the garage, I managed to corner it and marched/rolled him up against the garage door.
Any last requests, Punk?
Before he could open his mouth I fired. (.22 shot)
Being mid summer my uniform consisted of shorts and jandals....

It seems hard plastic hubcaps and tiny shot are incompatible. Especially at close range (5m)

Frikkin ouch! I got peppered on the bare chest and face, missed my eyes luckily but got one in the lip.
felt like a sand blaster was swept across me.

I get a pretty good pattern from 44mag brass loaded with 9 shot out to 20m, 20" Rossi Puma.

Originally Posted by Jhon

I get a pretty good pattern from 44mag brass loaded with 9 shot out to 20m, 20" Rossi Puma.

Cool!, is that a rifled barrel?

Originally Posted by 40mm

It was mid summer.... The plastic hubcaps were becoming a problem.
One of the pesky, grey, round things was milling around outside the garage, I managed to corner it and marched/rolled him up against the garage door.
Any last requests, Punk?
Before he could open his mouth I fired. (.22 shot)
Being mid summer my uniform consisted of shorts and jandals....

It seems hard plastic hubcaps and tiny shot are incompatible. Especially at close range (5m)

Frikkin ouch! I got peppered on the bare chest and face, missed my eyes luckily but got one in the lip.
felt like a sand blaster was swept across me.

We had a similar story when shooting three gun - low power trap loads with steel shot on bowling pins - not recommended!

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

We had a similar story when shooting three gun - low power trap loads with steel shot on bowling pins - not recommended!

Ouch... Mine was not too bad, a real stinger but only the size of sand. I got one just under the eye and on the lip too.

Originally Posted by Got-ya

Cool!, is that a rifled barrel?

Yes it is. Will nail a possum, rat, magpie etc.