CCI .22 Shotshell vs 9 gram .410

[Jax]

I'm interested to know peoples thoughts on CCI .22 shotshells or 9 gram .410 cartridges for humane dispatch of livestock such as sheep at point blank range.

The HD would take place within concrete floor/block type enclosures. Bolt gun not ideal in this instance. Looking for something humane that won't make too much mess with minimal over penetration.

 

[enfieldspares]

I'd think that you'd rightly IMHO be prosecuted for cruelty for attempting to dispatch sheep or pigs with CCI .22" Rimfire shotshells. Or indeed anybody else's make of .22" Rimfire shotshell. Please. For the animals' sakes stick with the .410" option.

 

[Hook'N'Bullet]

I'm interested to know peoples thoughts on CCI .22 shotshells or 9 gram .410 cartridges for humane dispatch of livestock such as sheep at point blank range.

The HD would take place within concrete floor/block type enclosures. Bolt gun not ideal in this instance. Looking for something humane that won't make too much mess with minimal over penetration.

yeah I wouldn't advise it. Its shot no.12 or something stupid. I doubt there would be enough weight or energy for dispatch.

 

[oxfordshirestalker]

I assume the licensing side of things is also much easier with the .410 option as you wouldn’t have to have your FAC conditioned for humane dispatch...?

 

[glasshalffull]

Just use sub sonics

 

[Smellydog]

410. 22 shot shells are for driven mouse shoots.

 

[paultap]

I bought some federal .22 LR shot shells with the idea of using them very close up in a barn to dispatch pigeons. On testing, I fired at plank of wood at a distance of about 10 feet, half the shot failed to penetrate the wood and bounced back! No way would I use these to dispatch anything short of a very close up pigeon!

 

[Island]

I thought .22 shot shells were for driven moths.......?

 

[enfieldspares]

I had maybe forty years ago at least a Webley .22RF Garden Gun. I think that squirrels and rats suffered more risk of harm from the elements (wind, rain, snow, sleet) that they ever risked from being shot at with cartridges then available (Eley in a purple box of fifty) for these Webley Garden Guns.

 

[Old melv]

I have used .22 shot shell on live trapped rats and found them totally useless!

 

[User00048]

I'm interested to know peoples thoughts on CCI .22 shotshells or 9 gram .410 cartridges for humane dispatch of livestock such as sheep at point blank range.

The HD would take place within concrete floor/block type enclosures. Bolt gun not ideal in this instance. Looking for something humane that won't make too much mess with minimal over penetration.

Just about kill a rat point blank... I mean muzzle to the cage trap they are in. That's from personal experience and use. would never use one on an animal any larger.

 

[User00048]

I bought some federal .22 LR shot shells with the idea of using them very close up in a barn to dispatch pigeons. On testing, I fired at plank of wood at a distance of about 10 feet, half the shot failed to penetrate the wood and bounced back! No way would I use these to dispatch anything short of a very close up pigeon!

I have half a pack of these left. Number 12 shot? Bloody terrible

 

[Jax]

Just about kill a rat point blank... I mean muzzle to the cage trap they are in. That's from personal experience and use. would never use one on an animal any larger.

Enough said. Thank you

 

[Hook'N'Bullet]

I thought .22 shot shells were for driven moths.......?

22 plinkster on YouTube sat on his porch with a revolver shooting carpenter bees that were eating his house with 22 shot shells. Think he lives in Utah or something. Pretty funny to watch to be fair.

Driven bee shoot?

 

[enfieldspares]

I saw a guy once shoot and hit a flying moth with my father's .22 BSA Airsporter. It was about maybe ten feet distant from the muzzle. This was fifty years ago. I've never seen such since. Supposedly the original .22RF shot cartridges were paper, with a brass base, yes, like an then usual paper .410" or 20 Bore and etc.. As were 9mm Rimfire shot cartridges too. But on firing these in 22RF and 9mm RF the paper case was meant to detach and travel down the barrel with the shot to act as a sort of wad. This is what I was told. Biut I've never seen any of those paper type rimfire cartridges fired. I did have on my FAC as s1 (this was post 1988) a Bernardelli three shot detachable magazine 9mm Rimfire semi-automatic. heck that was unpleasant. It fired from an open breech and was nasty at both ends because of it. All manner of unburned powder and rubbish coming out of the ejection port with the fired case.

 

[bogtrotter]

I thought .22 shot shells were for driven moths.......?

Nope too many runners.

 

[VSS]

410
Without doubt the best tool for your requirements.

 

[paultap]

I have half a pack of these left. Number 12 shot? Bloody terrible

That's the ones, a total waste of money, besides being next to useless, they wouldn't eject from the rifle either. I had to push a cleaning rod down the muzzle end of the barrel to get the empty case out.