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This is the second of these guns that I've owned. This is chambered in 9mm shot rimfire otherwise known as ".350 Glatt". The glatt I believe refers to the bore as being smoothbore. These guns are typically single shot bolt actions, however I have seen some combination guns with a rifle caliber on one side and the smoothbore 9mm on the other. Bernardelli also made an autoloader in 9mm, but I've never seen any pump guns in this chambering. Apparently, they have (and possibly still do) make these this shells with a round ball for short range dispatching of garden pests. I prefer to use the shotshells and have found them to be quite effective on small varmints and birds. Shells can be found in size 6, 7.5, 8 and 9 shot and typically are purchased in packs of 50. Traveling at roughly 600 fps and containing about a quarter ounce of lead shot, you would be amazed how they can shed a feather on starlings. I finally decided to take this Simson made prewar gun to the pattern board and see how it printed. Shot at 15yds and 25 yds. The picture with the circled hits is at 25 yds. Enjoy the pictures...

Caleb, that's an interesting gun. The old Remington M41 Targetmaster in .22 lr was also made in a smooth bore version for shooting rat shot. Federal's 25 grains (.056 oz) ain't much compared to yours shooting a quarter oz. Gil

Gil,

As far as domestically produced guns in this caliber, the Winchester Model 36 was 'relatively' popular and to this day is quite valuable for collectors...

i owned the bernadelli 9mm semi. it was poorly made and would jam every time i took it out. had some pretty big name smiths in conn tell me make it go away after numerous visits to be fixed...so i sold it years ago.

Very neat category of shotguns.I have a double barrel SXS in 44 shot. Loaded with #9 my best was 13/25 at skeet.

Neat gun, but IMO with patterns like that you need to limit your shots to 15 and 25 feet, not yards.

SRH

I would agree with you Stan, if we were talking about gamebirds and not pests.

best i could do at skeet with a model 61 rutledge winchester was on station 1 and 7 coming at me....in 22LR #12 shot.

Oh I agree on the 22 shot even with #10's ! Just doesn't have the speed to catch up to anything moving away. Station 8 hi/lo. #1 lo. #7 hi... Even #1, #2, #6, #7 going away was tough with the 44 shot(44/40 win).
But you have to admit it was still fun !