Bolt action smoothbore

[ralph7]

I have a single shot .22 smoothbore rifle, a Remington 510.
Did anyone ever make a .22 smoothbore bolt action that held a magazine of sorts?
Not talking about the pump versions.

 

[Alpo]

Marlin made their Model 25 MG, the Garden Gun, with a five shot clip. 22 magnum, not long rifle.


Henry now makes a lever gun with a 15 round tube. Also Magnum, not long rifle.

 

[cgt4570]

.22 Rutledge (indoor skeet shooting) was common for a while in the '50s and '60s. I can't swear to it, but I think Remington made smoothbore .22 rifles on the various detachable magazine fed rifles of the time.

 

[22lrfan]

I've seen a few smoothbore .22's over the years but the only one I bought was a Rem. pump.

 

[panther]

I think Mossberg had a couple back in the day too.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Smoothbore .22 caliber arms were fairly common, sold for the indoor skeet games and for short range pest use. Another fairly common example was the 9mm "garden guns", smoothbore barrel using a 9mm shot cartridge (mostly European, but a few appeared on the US market).

Trappers used shot cartridges for dispatching smaller animals. Annie Oakley achieved considerable fame using a Marlin lever-action rifle shooting aerial targets while using .44-40 shot cartridges.

Haven't seen much in this line over the past few decades. Still see .22 LR and .22 Magnum shot cartridges, and a few handgun calibers (.38 Special, .357 magnum, few others) are still around. Those of which I am aware are intended primarily for use in standard rifled rifles or handguns; haven't seen any dedicated smoothbores for years (probably a problem for handguns due to GCA-68 shotgun restrictions).

 

[2152hq]

Mossberg 340TR was box magazine fed smooth bore .22
One of Mossberg's TARGO line of smoothbore .22's

The 340TR and a couple of the others in that bunch also came with a screw on rifled 'tube'..for accuracy using regular bulleted ammo.

Earlier 22 bolt smoothbore w/ box magaines were the 42T & 42TR (R meant that the rifled 'tube' was included).
Mossberg made one for Speigals. A Mossberg 42T marked as a B42T.

There's a Mossberg 320T but that's a SIngle Shot smooth bore IIRC

 

[sceva]

As said. A number of makers offered Rutledge bore (Smooth) .22 Rimfires. One (Remington?) was called the Mo-Skeet-o and some (Targo by Mossburg) even had a little target thrower attached to the stock.

 

[Bullet Bob]

I still see .22's with the Routledge bore advertised on guns international; usually with seller descriptions of "rare", and "desirable". And a higher price tag.

If someone wants to search, don't forget the 'o' in Routledge.