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[bananaman]

Starting to get low on .22's, but not desperate enough to shoot these.
My neighbor gave them to me. I am building a display for an antique rifle.
According to the internet . 22 CB's were developed in 1845. Not sure how old these are.They were for indoor gallery guns. Shown next to a .22 long rifle. Bob

 

[vipermd]

Starting to get low on .22's, but not desperate enough to shoot these.
My neighbor gave them to me. I am building a display for an antique rifle.
According to the internet . 22 CB's were developed in 1845. Not sure how old these are.They were for indoor gallery guns. Shown next to a .22 long rifle. Bob

I just found 4 boxes of these from an lot of ammo I bought, they ended up a bonus. Trying to find some 22 lr birdshot for a friend. Be Safe,

 

[Green Frog]

I just found 4 boxes of these from an lot of ammo I bought, they ended up a bonus. Trying to find some 22 lr birdshot for a friend. Be Safe,

Are you looking for crimped shot cartridges or the ones with the blue plastic cap? Both are pretty tough to find, but if your friend has one of the smooth bore rifles ("Routledge Bore") designed for shot, it will likely do better with the crimped ones.

Rifling in the conventional bore shreds the plastic shot cup to allow a pattern to open. I would opine that the cup would hold the shot together out of a smooth bore, so it would travel like a single, fairly loose-in-the-bore projectile.

Froggie

 

[mikerjf]

My quickie comparison:

22 shot comparison

 

[Nevada Ed]

Those "Cap's" were used at the fair grounds, shooting gallery in the old days.
Today for safety, they used compressed air and BB's, to take out the red star on the white paper.
The secret is to not shoot the star.............
but go from tip to tip, cutting a circle around the star, like a cookie cutter.