Also wondering if the shot shells would work on ground hogs?!?
Have a lot houses around and don't really want to use standard 22LR
I was thinking of shooting in it's general direction to scare it off. So I got to looking at the shotshell thinking they would just diminish to nothing or cause little issue where ever they stopped. You know, something to discharge in the ground or tree near the stupid animal.
I've shot a cat with sub HP .22Lr, it died....later. .22LR is not effective against cats.
If you can get close enough to the cat to injure it with a .22 shot shell, just grab the damn thing and throttle it.
This is more unsubstantiated B.S., but I've heard that the reason those shells were developed was to collect small bird specimens for museum taxidermist, such as hummingbirds and tiny wrens. I know that there were a few models of smoothbore .22 and that was their primary use. Some people call them "snake shot" but I think just about any blunt instrument would be preferable to a .22 loaded with them. I can't imagine that any of the other chamberings offered are that much more effective, and once you get to the .45/.44 range you might as well get a real shotgun.