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I have a .22 cal. shotgun with no rifles in the barrel. The choke opening measures .385 in or 9.71 MM. Shoots "22 long shot". I know this is a silly question but what choke would this equal? This gun was made by Stoeger Arms Corporation of New York, with ZEPHYR on barrel. Action by J. G. Anschutz.Should make a good kids target gun. Or rat killer supreme.
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Deltaboy; This gun is made on the order of the old "Rutledge" bore. They were .22 size for a part of their bore, about 6" as I recall then stepped up to a larger bore & choked at the muzzle. At one point in time a game of miniature skeet was attempted to be popularized, called "Mo-Skeet-O". As to amount of choke you would simply have to measure the bore behind the choke & take the difference. A few tests for patterning ability would of course tell you the most as to it's effectiveness.
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Miller,
Not to hi-jack the thread, but were did that term, Rutledge, come from?
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Pete; I am a little fuzzy on it's history, but believe it was developed by a Mr Rutledge. Seems he was a designer for either Winchester or Remington, not sure which, maybe neither. I do recall reading about them from years past. Should be someone here with the details on this, Help!! I think that maybe Mossberg had a hand in the Mo-Skeet-O game, but didn't develope the Rutledge Bore.
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I remember trying to break small clay targets as a child in the back yard. Trying.
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Remington had a 22 based on the 510 series called a Rutledge and it was marked so on the barrel. I can't remember if it was Mossberg or Rem. that had a sort of thrower that attached to the barrel and it threw a small clay target that the shooter could trip. Someone also made a thrower that tossed Ritz type crackers. I thought it looked like fun, but never tried it. I have heard of guys tramping fields with these guns though and wingshooting grasshoppers.
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Some of these were made and sold for the museum trade. They are used to whack sparrow sized birds off of branches w/o destroying their value as study skin specimens. They work a WHOLE lot better than rifled barrels.
Inserts are also made for .20 gauge and probably other gauges of shotguns. They are the size and length of a shotsell cartridge and bored to chamber a .22 shotshell off centered so that it can be fired with the normal firing pin.
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I've got one of those cracker throwers. My wife got tired of throwing them but the springer never got tired of eating them:)
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My recollection is that Remington made the ultimate gun, a 121 pump. There was an article somewhere about shooting dragonflys with it, I think it may have been in Gun Digest. I don't recall that Purdey made any.
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I have a Mossberg smooth bore 22 that was given to me without a bolt or clip. It sat around for years and looked like scrap Iron to me. A little rusty on the outside. One day I ran a patch thrue the barrel and was suprised to see that it was pristine and a smooth bore. Now that explaned why the muzzle was threaded. I thought it was for a silencer. I picked up a bolt at a gun show and a friend made a choke for it. Now when I go carpenter bee hunting I can hit them at 15 feet rather than 5 feet with the cylinder bore.
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