.22 l.r. shot shells in a rifle

taurus_man

I have a Marlin bolt action .22 rifle that I want to shot some shot shells in, like cci, and remington. Will the shot shells hurt the barrel or rifling in the barrel. I would like a few opinions on this. Thanks.

ladams

No will not hurt the barrel in the least, but they are more or less worthless to use out of a .22. I have used them a few times for fun, the shot charge is too small to do much of anything.... including punching through cardboard. Might work on a mouse, but not much else.

cody45

shot shells only work well with a smoothbore. Those who claim they are worthless probably have only used shotshells with a rifled bore.
22 LR shotshells work fine and are deadly on pests up to 35ft with a smoothbore, such as a 61 Winchester. Just ask the rats, bats, and woodpeckers.

taurus_man

That makes sense about the smooth bore. So the shots won't actualy hurt the rifled barrel though?

beantownshootah

Lead shot won't hurt a rifled steel barrel, but with these .22 shotshells, the shot itself is tiny, and not in large quantity.

So they're really probably best not used on anything larger than a squirrel.

daveald

cody 45 has the numbers right. What I like about the shot shell is that you can shot a varmit, or pigeon which is a flying varmit in a barn and not worry about making holes in every thing.

Spider7115

I use them in my Colt .22 Peacemaker and Winchester 62A. They're fun snake rounds at short range.

PA Shootist

I have had far better results in a pistol than a rifle. I have used them for mice and borer wasps with a handgun, close range, usually 10 ft or less. The borer wasps were making 50 caliber holes in the exterior woodwork, and a shot of wasp and hornet spray only made them shrug. But they would always pause a half-second before entering the wooden eave, and that's when I blasted them with the .22 shot. Greta sport, and I eventually got rid of the problem.

allen griggs

Great at range of 20 feet on carpenter bees.

cattle buyer

Some of the most fun times on this farm were with a mod 67 win and rat shot during the early 60's. Hog feeders,chicken,turkey pens and feeders,laying hens,corn cribs....my uncle would come home from med school with a fancy miners lamp that you hooked to a big heavy square battery, pocket full of rat shot and waa laa, dog damn warf rats big as baby rabbits could not tote a load of #9 rat shot at 15 feet! killem by the score.. very best the shot were long as a 22 lr but star crimped at the end, I still have a half full and full yellow box around here, hell I may go a rat killin!

bobski

last i checked, cci shotshells hold 1/15th oz of #12 dust. the stuff is powder! it wont hurt anything, but your rifling will render it worthless past 10yds.