[White Stallion]

Thanks to everyone in the last thread I posted I'm guessing I should not buy the shot shell loads because they do not have enough killing power. Thanks for your help to everyone from the last thread.;)

[Art Eatman]

No problem. :)

But I'll repeat: At four or five feet, I know they'll kill rats; and, I've killed one rattlesnake at about three feet.

Art

[Lupinus]

get some 22lr shot shells and get a little ways from a bee hive...could be fun if you don't get attacked

[22-rimfire]

When I was younger, a little dumber, and new to shooting handguns, I thought the 22 shot shell idea was good until I actually tried to use them on a snake. I found that a stick works a lot better and you have to get just as close. But it is all part of life, get yourself a box or two and try them out. Not much of an investment for a little learning. I had trouble killing rats with regular 22LR loads. Pretty tough creatures, but didn't really care if they crawled away and died later or got back in a hole.

[smokemaker]

My Dad and I have a ball every summer when the wood boring bees show up at his house. He has a wooden pole barn, and the bees love it. We each take a .22 loaded with shotshells, and when you hit the bee, it disappears! Other than that, I can see no real use for a .22 shotshell.

[Matt G]

Yeah, when I was 6, I watched my father install a flagstaff on the corner of our house, only to be attacked by the nest of wasps that lived just under the shingles on the corner at which he was working. Dad went in and looked for bug spray, unsuccessfully. He went back to work on the stepstool, and out came the wasps again. Dad pulled out his revolver from his pocket, and proceeded to blast 3 or 4 of them out of the air. I of course believed that my father was the best pistolero in the world.

It was years later that I found out that he had used shotshells.

At 2 to 5 feet, .22 shotshells work great on wasps.

[Starter52]

I have fond memories of using Remington crimped .22 shot cartridges on field mice 40 years ago. We would tip over an old board and blast 'em as they scattered. Great fun, no ricochet danger, and no mouse ever walked away.

[Bigjake]

Starter 52...

you remind me of stupid fun teenage years. we used a 410 and a 20ga though :evil: