Got fed up with birds in the sheds, bought this smooth bore .22 for shooting the .22shotshells. Pretty fun way to clean out the barn and it seems to hold a decent pattern. Still need to get an aerial kill. Anyone else have a garden gun?

I am curios what the pattern looks like at different distances

my garden is at my house in town , no shooting but my dogs keep most stuff out of the garden till it gets too hot for the Pyrenees to stay out at night.

at the farm 12ga for most everything or the 22lr but rifled

Unfortunately mof6 of my garden pest bitfr are of the song kind.

What yardage are you patterning at?

Just an old springfield 22 rifle. I keep the garden fenced, that keeps most of the issues at bay.

That Henry looks like fun though. Can you get those 22 shells in TSS?

Nice looking Henry

I'll go shoot a couple patterns shortly, so far the patterning has just been a few shots into the snow and then shooting birds in sheds

It would be cool if they made a .22cal led bb for it as well.

What kind of bird shot ammo are you using? I used to shoot a lot of sparrows out of the bus barn at the school with the Winchesters that crimped closed on the end. Shot them out of a Winchester 74 not a smooth bore. I imagine they'd frown on that these days at the school, kept the buses clean though.

The only ammo I have so far is the federal crimped ammo. The blue CCI shotshells are supposed to be best if you only have a rifled barrel as the plastic helps prevent the rifling from spinning the shot.

Be interesting what range you can get, all I know was 38 cal shotshells out of a 4" revolver the results were abysmal, lol and that was under 25 feet...

Not a shot gun deal but since out garden is about a acre big mine is this lil .22 TCM gas gun. Still working on it but got a load about worked up that has a lil more then .22 mag but won't do anything crazy after it goes in still a lil too ....splody on anything barn rat size and down though... Still wan get a cricket hair for use use them sub sonic.22 lrs lil garden sniper

10 yards from the muzzle with federal crimped shells

Another 10 yard from muzzle with federal crimped

Doesn't look terrible....what range do you need to shoot?

Back in the olden days (100 years or less) gun manufacturers produced their "garden guns" that were close to 9mm. The few that I seen were single barrel break-opens like your old H&R's - but there was many store brands.

10 yards is pretty much max for me. I'll be honest, could of probably gotten by with a rifled barrel and the blue cci but I've always wanted a smooth bore and the few times I found used ones they sold for basically new price. I'll probably use this thing a handful of times a year for the rest of my life keeping sparrows out of sheds

why not just use a .22 or .22 mag?

because reloading for rimfires is a real pain
and if wolfie can't reload it what fun is it

looks like about 10 yards is your range

it seems like more of an in the barn gun than garden exactly

but it has uses

I bet it has a 18 inch barrel doesn't it. it falls weirdly into it is a 22cal so it might be OK to be 16 inches but it is also a smooth bore so techincally a shot gun so needs 18

stupid 92 year old BS law

I got one for my birthday last year. Amazing how much better it shoots the shotshells. Snake killer!! 5 yards it demolishes them, 10 yard for sure, and killed a few floating cottonmouths at 20 yards. Missed a few at 20 yards also, or at least not confirmed. My brother in law pulled up to me when I was at a little pond by my house and he asked what I was doing. I told him I was looking for snakes. One came up about 20 yards and I pulled up and shot and it just rolled over dead. He was pretty amazed at my good shooting (thinking I shot it was a regular 22 bullet). I had to confess it was shotshell. LOL