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back in my younger days I worked in a feed store and I was the official "rat killer" of the crew. The owner had a .22 magnum H&R revolver and I have shots tons of rats with CCI .22 magnum rat shot. I could hit them running along ceiling beams from a pretty good distance. Personally, I don't shoot snakes any more, but if I were to start back I would use CCI rat shot and not worry about it. Well, actually I would use a regular .22 bullet, but if your friend can't hit well enough with a pistol then the CCI will do the trick.

My grnadmother used to pay me to shoot snakes, bullfrogs, and blackbirds and I used a pellet gun. No telling how many she has killed with a hoe.

I have sold a number of .38 special police trade in guns to women whose husbands are deployed and live in the country. They have to deal with 2 legged/4legged and the creepy crawleys in their yards/garages. I suggest the first two cylinders be loaded with CCI Rat shot(#9) and solids in the other 4. Have had a number of very satisfied customers! Best, Dr. BILL

If you are talking about a 22 smoothbore pistol, then isn't by definition a short barreled shotgun?

Even a smoothbore 22 rifle would require a barrel length of more than 18".

Perhaps she would prefer a snake charmer 410? They are light and will certainly do the job.

Pete

No, I wasn't talking about pistols. The only smoothbores I've sent shot cartridges down the barrel in were what were once gallery guns of some sort, with no rifling.
Best,
Ted

Some years bck a clay target game known as "Mo-Skeet-O" as I recall was attempted to be popularized. Miniture clay targets were shot with smoothbore .22 rimfire shot cartridges through essentially regular rifles except for the bore. Supposedly one of the best was the "Rutledge" bore. This started as a regular .22 smoothbore for abut 6" & stepped up to a 5/16" bore with a choke. I have never shot oe of these but performance was supposedly much improved over a regular .22 bore.
Miller

Miller,

Your memory is amazing... It was introduced in 1938. They sold a bolt action and a repeater. About 9 years later Mossberg announced it was going to the enter the market with the Targo. They made the M 42TR smoothbore. There a contraption that fitted on the muzzle that would toss the Targo clays. Though I don't know when or if the M42TR was ever actually sold.

Pete

AW Pete; I simply remember reading about it. Looks like me & Mo-Skeet-O came into being very close together. I was born March of 38. I can remember, though it must have been in the fall of 44 which would have been when I started school, all the school kids scoured the country side picking up "Tin" cans for the war effort. I assume they went into bullet jackets.
Miller