Anyone ever use these?

Good for squirrels in your tree and rattlesnakes when prairie dog hunting. Just put them in your revolver cylinder. Voila!

I think they used to be more popular. I remember both grandfathers keeping a few around. Mostly intended for shooting mice or rats indoors. The no. 12 shot is pretty much just lead powder, but it can kill a very small animal at close range. Probably wouldn't expect much out of them at anything past 10-12 yds.

-Sam

works great on wild dogs / shoot'em in the butt and you'll never see'em around your house again

Effective for snakes real close, 8 feet or closer, head shots only. They are fun to use against a coke can. Also, if you have a younger child who is having trouble hitting the coke can with regular ammo, slip these in. Most likely they'll hit it and get a confidence boost. I've shot snakes with the .22 ratshot and .38 ratshot with mixed results. I finally bought a straight hoe and used that instead.
We killed over 14 copperheads last summer.

They are great for close range pest control, Kinda pricey but effective. Really good in the barn where you don't want bullet holes and ricochets. Great on starlings if you are close enough too.

Who discharges guns in the barn? Honestly?

You'd spook all the animals. I know my horses wouldn't take kindly.

Use a hoe.

A few times while growing up, we helped shoot rats in grain silos. They got really fat. The big ones could get to be the size of an opossum, but grey.

snake shot, If you're like a trapper or something

Who discharges guns in the barn? Honestly?

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You have NO idea.

My company does repair and historic restoration of timberframe buildings -- the majority of them barns and other agricultural structures.

We see shotgun patterns through metal roofing and in siding in probably half of the barns we work on! My office ceiling is made of recycled barn siding, and I have a pattern of what looks like No. 6s showing clearly where we planed that board down.

Might not be smart to shoot holes in your barn roof or walls, but some guys REALLY don't like snakes...

Also once repaired a small workshop/office building down in MD that had a pattern of holes through a piece of trim by a door. When we took the trim off there were 6-8 lead slugs (looked like .32s or .38s) buried in the timber where one of the owners used to do a little target practice. We preserved it that way as part of the building's history.

-Sam

I've used the Winchesters years ago. They were great for getting rid of the pigeons that pooped all over the hay in the barn. They'd roost up in the rafters and anything else would punch a hole in the roof I feared. These worked great. Didn't really have any other use for them.

They are about worthless IMO. We had a few at deer camp last year, the CCI version witht he blue tip. The plastic cap did more damage to the beer cans we were shooting than the dust sized pellets did.

We used to wingshoot dragonflies down by the pond with them. Out to 20 feet or so they did very nicely.

Who discharges guns in the barn? Honestly?

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I use them in my chicken coop mostly, they don't seem to mind, or at least they got used to it.

Used to use something similar years ago for nesting swallows in the eves...but the shot was clay, not lead....which was easier on the wood trim.

More recently, got a buddy's son shooting down bumblebees in their garden with a singleshot bolt.22lr. Great practice for sporting clays.

I kinda like bumble bees, but I've heard of people walking in fields scaring up the great big flying type grass hoppers and popping them like birds. My experience on game like squirrels is that they are pretty worthless.

Who discharges guns in the barn? Honestly?
I use them in my chicken coop mostly, they don't seem to mind, or at least they got used to it.

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I've used them on rats in house attics and crawlspaces as well as shops, barns etc. I like the idea that they (the .22 version) don't penetrate walls, roofs, floors, gas lines, etc. However, I found that they're effective on normal sized rats only out to maybe 10 feet. I once shot a fist-sized rat three times with the federal version, and he just kinda laughed at me. The fourth round in my revolver was a .22 short HP and that did him in.

Probably wouldn't expect much out of them at anything past 10-12 yds.

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Make that 10-12 FEET to be more accurate........

I bought a pack of the CCI ones with the blue tips from Wally World one time to try out and like said above I thought they were kind of worthless. I shot a Pepsi can from about 20 feet the first time. I walked up there and didn't see any bullet holes. I thought what the heck how did I miss. So this time I stood back 7-10 feet or so and shot it. I saw it move when I shot yet when I went to pick it up I didn't see any holes once again. I started looking carefully as I knew I'd hit it and it had little dents in the can from where the pellets hit it but they hadn't had enough power to put a hole in the can at all just little tiny dents. After seeing this there is no way I'd use them on a squirrel.

I've shot the Federal brand version a few times. Shot looked more like tiny bits of metal slag, not uniform round shot. It barely embedded into plywood from 10-20 paces out of a bolt action rifle. The Federal ones just have a crimped brass nose and would not feed in my Remington 597 semi auto.

I have used the CCI and the Winchesters.

The Winchester pack considerably more wallop than the CCI.

I have always wondered if they would effect accuracy if you shot them a lot...they are fun to shoot...as a kid, i shot box after box of them at cans, birds, bees, etc. Just wonder about the rifling in the barrel.

I've used shotshells on rattlesnakes before - work real good up close. I cannot remember though, if the shot size was a #9 or #12. I carry them in my S&W revolver whenever I am in the woods and would recommend them for snakes.

when i was young 22 shotshell was good snake med, a little older a little slower 38 shot shells were better, now a little older and slower, use better JUDGEment 410 works better!!!! yep got the judge by tarus definatly snake med