doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com a .22 RF smooth bored SxS ?

Reading Doubletrubble's 44 shotgun post and the responses causes me to wonder if there has ever been a smooth bored .22RF SxS fabricated that anyone knows of? I have seen SxS double rifles chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge purpose built as goose guns, presumably for potting geese still on the ground. I'm thinking here more in terms of a Routledge chambering or some other smooth bored variant for the .22 RF shotshell cartridge. Its an idle question, but an interesting one nonetheless since such a gun could be used on some type of flying target, e.g., mid-air barn rats leaping from rafter to rafter when the doors are thrown open and they are found in the few moments' light. A silly question I know, but why not? Nothing but ice & sorry weather here this weekend [something over 100 new accidents within the last hour locally] and I was not able to get out amongst 'em to chase the wary Bob. Indoor shooting, of the sort just described, might have its own special appeal;-) ;-) [wink, wink]

As an aside, I have in my cartridge collection a single .45 Auto shot round with a brass case and a red paper 6-point crimped nose made from paper with the EXACT same profile as a round nose ball bullet so that it will feed & function in the 1911 autos. It is the only one like it that I have seen & I have had it for roughly 52 years. There has seemingly been a long term interest in small shot cartridges, be they for snakes or simply as garden guns to mostly scare the local birds away from the fruit or the hares away from the cabbage. Any .410 SxS would have proved superior, but we are obviously speaking of a bespoke iteration here, shoulld such a gun exist. It might prove the penultimate W. TX grasshopper gun. They get to be fair size, you know .. the grasshoppers.

What a fantasy and huge waste of money! Buy yourself an old .410 SxS and load it with 2 1/2" shells with 1/4oz of shot in handloads with reduced powder loads around 700 or 800 fps much like a lower powered pellet rifle.

I can remember that in the 60s?? there was a group that was experimenting with handgun altered to shoot handloaded shotshells. They rebored the barrels smooth and were fitting choke devices on them. The BATF put a end to it when they ruled that they were shotguns with a barrel less than 18"! Jim

I have seen a couple of times, at the Beinfeld shows, an 8 barreled .22 mag or .22 hornet, 2 up and 4 wide, intended as a long range goose gun. If I remember correctly, it fired all 8 at once.

Didn't some one post that Galazan had one in the works and was displaying it at some shows? I can't imagine it being useful for hunting. I had a squirrel in the attic some years ago. I shot it with 3 or 4 22rf shot shells. It laughed at me and continued to gnaw at the shingles.

Pete

They made a .22 RF double rifle - I especially like the engraved frog (reminded me of frog legs expeditions of my youth, although not with a DR as Ozark bull frogs rarely charge and a stopping rifle is seldon required).