Shorts used to be popular on the gallery circuit. There was slightly less recoil for the timed and rapid fire stages. Mostly it was in the eye of the beholder I think. In the early 70's, I started in the game with a model 41 chambered in 22 short. It was an original, not a conversion. I got strapped for cash and sold it for dirt. It was one of those transactions that I look back on and cringe! There are still a few shooting gallery with shorts now but they were expensive and hard to find even before the apocalypse. I think there is still a role for the short and CB for indoor practice and pest control around the yard.