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Hard to find Savage MKIG Smooth Bore Garden Gun 22LR (50703)
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https://shop.whittakerguns.com/product/2427179

You can purchase online!!

What do you use a smoothbore 22 for?

22 birdshot........

I figured, I just wasn't certain. When I lived out in the country we used to wing shoot dragonflies with 22 bird shot out of our rifled barrels. Talk about fun, and hard!

Love a smooth bore 22. Have a very minty Remington 580 smooth bore with all the extras, the mini clad bird thrower and 2 cases of birds that Remington marketed for this gun. Wish that crimped bird shot wasent so dang expensive, loved to sit out on the deck and shoot wood bees. Alot cheaper to fireform brass with blue dot and corn meal and get the same job done.

Do the crimped loads work better in smoothbores? The CCI loads have always done better for me in handguns.

The CCI loads with the blue capsules are designed for rifled barrels, the rifling breaks the capsules when exiting the barrel. If you use them in a smooth bore they sometimes act like a solid bullet, they don break. The crimped loads work best in the smooth bores, they act like a shot shell. Useing crimped shotshells loads in a rifle barrel is not so good, they use to loaded them with steel shot it played heck on the rifleing. Not sure what the use now days in them, but I heard of alot of barrels being damaged by shooting crimped loads out of them. I bought a Remington 580 from a farm auction years age, the farmer use it in the chicken coup to shoot rats, all he used was crimped loads. Cleaned it up good and mounted a scope on it, 4" groups at 25 yards was the best it wound do. I pulled a bullet to slug the barrel, the bullet dropped down the barrel and only stopped at two places down the 24" barrel.

I have a brick + of crimped and a brick + of the CCI capsule.

I love shooting carpenter bees in the spring/summer.

when i was a teenager i shot bird shot through a Marlin 25N and i had to use a cleaning rod to get the empty shell out

Hey, they are still available there. Found this in a search. Bringing an old one back to the top. Lol

Don't know, but price 22LR birdshot before investing.


Since this is the fire I'll go off topic;

I have a 10-22 and had a volquartsen 22 short bolt. I tuned it to shoot CCI Quiets. Playing with springs I got it to run Quiets 100%.

I had about a dozen CCI shot cartridges, gave these a try and it ran them 100%.

Of course ideally you would use a smoothbore barrel.

There is an outfit (urban rifle supply) that used to sell smoothbore barrels, but now I see they will 'smoothbore' your barrel for a fee.

And now Volqurtsen offers a bolt for CCI Quiets (which is probably just the 22 short bolt without the short magazine).


Jerry


http://www.urbanriflesupply.com/ind...mp;view=article&id=97&Itemid=555

Same here.

Other than bugs and rats, the smoothbore RF guns can be used on clays. When I was at scout summer camp out in OK many moons back part of the program was shooting clays with them. Passing shots, maybe 10-15 yards out. Smaller than normal clays and not quite as fast as some of you fellas are accustomed to. Fun times.

I have wanted a smooth bore 22 for a while. I think I have seen this Savage before, but my hesitation wa that it was a single shot bolt action. Sounds kinda tedious. If it has to be a single shot, I think I’d rather find an old Remington Model 6 or something similar with worn out rifling and have it smooth-bored. If the Savage was a repeater, I’d probably buy one.

Worked for a rancher once upon a time and we would use the crimped shells to shot sparrows in a metal pole barn.

http://www.crackerthrower.com

Looks like fun

Back in the 90s I purchased 3 of the Marlin 25mg magnum smooth bores.I wanted one and could not locate any.I stopped at a shop on my way to Michigan and the owner had one on the rack,I expressed an interest.The owner said he had them for 5+ years and I was the only person ever to look twice at them.He was asking $189.for them,he joking said if I bought all 3 he'd sell them for his cost,$132. each.I own 3 of them.I love them for squirrels and other small critters.Very rarely encountered guns just starting to get pricey

Did the same in Boy Scouts at a summer camp. Now I find it hard to believe that those tiny shells and basically 'dust' could break the clays.

If I recall correctly the clays were called 'Moskeeto'.

Jerry