Garden guns? .22 smoothbores

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Scott Tschirhart
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Garden guns? .22 smoothbores

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Does anyone have any experience with .22 smooth bores that I think they used to refer to as a “garden gun?”
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I read an article about the Henry Garden gun, from what I remember it threw impressive patterns to about 10 yards!
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I used .22 shot shells in rifled guns with very poor results, then I acquired a Webley garden gun in .22 with a choked smooth bore barrel it was a big improvement but still not very effective on Pigeons or Rats past 18 feet. The 9mm flobert garden gun was a little better. These little shot shells were mainly used in built up locations and were useful when you didn't want to damage structures etc. I never had a chance to use the .22 magnum shot shell so I can't comment on those.
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Re: Garden guns? .22 smoothbores

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I don't have any experience with those, I did experiment with 38 special shot loads and was highly unimpressed... I would think at the range the loads are practical you might as well use a pellet gun....YMMV
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Yes and don't bother. An airgun is better!
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Nath wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:33 pm Yes and don't bother. An airgun is better!
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Scott, it looks like you have plenty of land and not a lot of close neighbors, so upscale away! :D
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