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  • TreyG-20

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    A .22lr designed for shot shells seems pretty useless to me. A 410 would be better suited for the task, but maybe there is a market for it somewhere out there.
     

    TreyG-20

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    Yup. I have used those .22 shot shells out of both handguns and rifles. They are about useless after 5 feet. Maybe this rifle extends that range to 10 feet?
     

    ZX9RCAM

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    From the ad.....

    "Using shotshell with a rifled barrel spreads the shot pattern too wide to be effective and damages the rifling over time, which is why Henry's Garden Gun features an 18.5” round blued steel barrel that is void of any rifling, providing the perfect platform for slinging .22 LR shotshell projectiles in a tight pattern."
     

    TheDan

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    I was hoping this thread was about tanks...
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    HKShooter65

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    The only reason I can think of using rat shot in that .22 rifle is it wouldn't damage the inside of a barn near as much as a shotgun-fired shot shell would.

    Check this:
    Patent for a Routledge barrel
    https://patents.google.com/patent/US2185523

    I have an old Remington.
    Model 514 I think.

    Routledge barrel.
    Mine is smoothbore of a unique design.
    20 inches long with a shotgun bead sight out front.
    Actual .22 barrel is the first 10 inches.
    The last, distal, 10 inches is back-bored to about .45 or .50 caliber

    According to that link (above) to Mr. Routledge's patent it was intended for INDOOR skeet shooting with a little Ritz Cracker sized clay pigeon.

    the 10 inches of 1/2 inch bore kept the shot column tight to group well, as .22 shot from a rifled bore makes for a gigantic spread.

    Indoor skeet!
    Cool.

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    Andyd

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    The term garden gun has to be seen in a historical context. Back in pre-1972 Germany it was legal to shoot pests with Flobert rifles outdoors within city limit. Here those guns that were commonly called Tesching in Germany, were called garden guns, probably to make prononciation easier. Flobert cartridges, powered only by the primer, were common in 6mm and 9mm and also available with shot, though mostly in 9mm.

    After all, didn't Henry buy the old Erma machinery to get started with their .22 rimfires?
     
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