How does a 22 shot shell work in a 6” 22lr pistol barrel?
Works great.
I use them in my Ruger Single Six in stainless w/6” barrel to shoot Carpenter bees that want to live in the logs of our log home.
Quite a hoot, good fun, good accuracy training - but max range is about 10 feet........love watching them spiral to the ground after the slightest wound. Friends laugh at me, but it’s fun.
But I also built Carpenter Bee traps that really work well - with half a dozen, I trap over 400 bees a year with them. Like this:
My tests with a .22 Sentinel revolver show it patterns a little better than a rifle with a 20 inch barrel.
With the choke, it also patterns a little better, probably 15% better than the rifle. I suspect a shorter length of rifling upsets the pellets a little less.
With the experimental choke, the range of the pistol with #12 shot was extended to 30 feet.
I know snake shot won’t cycle a Ruger MKIII
pistol. But,with it functioning as a single shot, I wouldn’t trust it to take out a viper at 8 feet.
Dunno, but I carried a beater .22 9-shot revolver with a 2" barrel and shotshells for years when out in the fields bush-hogging hay and other farm work. Great for snakes.