Exactly.
Posted on 08/05/2005 1:03:26 PM PDT by Rebelbase
I've always wondered why a pistol firing that type of ammunition isn't considered a short barreled shotgun.
Thanks, I'll have to look it up. I've got some ground squirrels that like to tunnel around in my yard. The little rats are so shy though that you would likely have to lay in wait and ambush them to get them.
Exactly.
"We're talking about a blue county, aren't we?"
John Edwards adopted hometown.
Shhhh.... don't give them any ideas....
Get some gopher gas for those critters.
Much rather have pear perserves than a new neighbor or squirrels.
"Hold still, neighbor!"
Damn, I said #9 also. I hat it when I'm wrong.
"Hold still, neighbor!"
He is not using rat shot, he's using .22 bullets, probably shorts. He knows how to shoot, and he's obviously careful since he has 4 shots 4 kills.
He wouldn't have 4 dead squirrels with rat shot, that stuff wouldn't be effective on a squirrel past 10 feet. I have hit large rats with it in a barn at 20 feet and watched them run off.
I've heard them referred to as "snake rounds".
Imagine, if you will, a .22LR cartridge (probably with less than a normal load) with half of a gelatin capsule stuffed with very small shot on it in lieu of a bullet.
Lethal to critters but otherwise relatively limited in terms of the damage they can do.
Think I'll give him a ring and ask him if I can bring my Serbu BFG-50 over there and pop a squirrel or two.
They won't mind his .22 after a couple of rounds from THAT.
Oh, and to someone who thought we were a blue city- I don't think so, except for our new police chief who hails from NYC.
used to take out smaller rats with it myself. not very threatening to the neighborhood.
used to take out smaller rats with it myself. not very threatening to the neighborhood.
When I go up to my BIL's in Vermont, I always sling my 870 for squirrels & chipmonks. They like to destroy the maple sugaring lines.
My SIL knows when I'maround, she will hear lots of pops in the woods. My wife craps her pants, my SIL doesn't notice.
Edwards lives [or he will soon] in the Peoples' Republic of Chapel Hill, where he lectures the callow studentii about poverty as their parents' wallets are being rapidly drained.
because the barrel is rifled? but I see what you mean...why isn't it considered a SBR...
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