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[Mgderf]

I recently purchased a new Henry Garden Gun, smooth bore .22lr lever action "shotgun".
This thing is so cute, and accurate.
I wears a black ash stock, which sets it apart ( in looks anyway) from the other Henry stocks.
Being smooth bore it is .22 lr shotshell ONLY.
I've had a few people tell me that these are a ton of fun shooting carpenter bees.
I live inside city limits so that is out, but I get consistent pattern hits at 20-25 yards which surprised me.

 

[Mgderf]

 

[Col. Harrumph]

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

 

[PapaG]

So???)

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Is there a physical/ safety reason you cant shoot regular .22, like a choke or something?

 

[adcoch1]

Is there a physical/ safety reason you cant shoot regular .22, like a choke or something?

I bet I'd try it to see. After taking a caliper to the barrel to check...

 

[Mgderf]

Is there a physical/ safety reason you cant shoot regular .22, like a choke or something?

Besides the fact that you would have horrible ballistics with zero rifling, Henry says no.
I doubt it would be a safety issue for the shooter, but you never know.

 

[PapaG]

I'm wondering about the word "accurate" in your description.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

Those are fantastic rifles, err, eh, shotguns??

The ash stock is unique and cool, and you are right they are murder for wood bees and rats/other pests. Could even work on smaller snakes.

I’m jealous!!

 

[Old Hobo]

Maybe Henry should make a smoothbore in .38/.357. Would seem that this would be better than a .22 for rattlesnakes ... but then there's the .410 lever-action shotguns. Oh, well ...

Anybody ever actually kill rats/mice with the .22 shot cartridges? I was trying to kill a possum in my basement with a revolver loaded with .22 CB caps. I stopped that idiocy when some ricocheted lead zinged past my shin. Too, the CB caps had no effect on stopping the possum, just got blood all over the place. How I ended up killing the thing was a bit grizzly (I was very angry; it had broken two jars of pickles pushing them off the shelf). The grizzly part, I'll not share.

Once, I leaded-up the rifling of a .38 snubbie by using too hot of loads for swaged wadcutters. Looking down the bore revealed a smoothbore -- rifling gone (had to soak the bore in Hoppes to get that out). One wonders if a leaded bore would make for a decent snake load shooter. I'm sort'a kidding, but then ...
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[Mgderf]

I'm wondering about the word "accurate" in your description.

I was using CCI .22lr shotshells with the blue plastic shot capsules.
They contain a paper/cardboard wads.
At 20 yards, I picked this cardboard wadding out of the ten ring on several targets, many in the bullseye itself.
For a miniature shotgun, it's pretty accurate.

 

[Mgderf]

Since my purchase, I have managed to sell two more Garden guns for Henry.
Seems like every second or third person I show it to decides they need one as well.
A customer of mine just picked his up last week.

 

[Charlie Martinez]

Anybody ever actually kill rats/mice with the .22 shot cartridges? I

I have more than once. Used a Ruger Single Six w/6.5" barrel.