I have one of like the lower one. My father bought the first one in the area. Only the bluing is in better shape on mine.
Posted on 10/20/2004 1:03:01 PM PDT by Willie Green
A mouse loose in a Somerset County house may have escaped injury early Tuesday morning, but a woman who lives there wasn't as fortunate.
State police at Somerset said 43-year-old Donald Eugene Rugg was attempting to shoot the rodent with a .22-caliber handgun inside the home he shares with 35-year-old Cathy Jo Harris, along Chicken Bone Road, in Lower Turkeyfoot Township, shortly after midnight.
As he fired the weapon, Harris reportedly walked into the path of the discharged round and was struck in the right arm with birdshot.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
It's been a long time since I used a .22 anything...
LOL
Unless you have something like a Ruger Single Six ... then either one will do.
A "this isn't too far from me" ping.
You can't make stuff like this up. Chicken Bone Road in Lower Turkeyfoot Township!
Huh?
Commonly sold as 'snakeshot' also available in .38 cases.
Turns a handgun into a mini shotgun. It may be small and a bit slow, but I still doubt the woman had time to 'walk' into the shot.
LOL!
I'm a sucker for those kind of lines.
Aha! Too many were questioning the existence of birdshot so I got one-tracked. To make it clearer ...
Chicken Bone Road, in Lower Turkeyfoot Township" and the article saying "birdshot".
Now I get it!
Rednecks are generally stereotyped to the midwest or south, but I've seen uber-rednecks outside of Pittsburgh. I worked with a man contracted by the customer on a site near there who was a part-time computer admin and a chicken trucker. He wanted to be paid in cash to keep his wife in the dark.
You should have picked up on that faster, Turkey.
Not a lot of power. Might work on a small bird from close up, but it would have to be stuck in the rat's ear to do anything significant.
I here that he got her in the titmouse.
Must have beeen one of those "high-powered shotgun-rifles" that a local media talking head once talked about.
Just another day in "America's County."
Also in today's Trib, but not online, is a story about a woman who sprayed another with gasoline during a fight at the pumps.
SD
"Be sure to distinguish between the crimped .22LR snakeshot and the plastic dome .22WMR snakeshot ..."
I didn't notice that in the photo. Doesn't matter. I'll bet I don't use up my box of Federals in the rest of my lifetime. Can't remember the last time I fired one.
But, you know, I think I'll go out and pattern one of the things at about 15 feet. I have no idea what the pattern would look like.
The dark paneling would slow the shot down and not show the holes. The aluminum siding on the outside would stop any flythrough. Better than using a .38 and putting one through the floor and blowing out a tire.
that's nothing! You should see the 40 mm nuclear rounds for the M203 grenade launchers we had in the army.
LOL!
LOL! Didn't catch this.
I will keep my stereotypes to myself...
I have one of like the lower one. My father bought the first one in the area. Only the bluing is in better shape on mine.
And here I was giving him credit for having drywall.
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