shot in a rifle

[adbranaman]

After reading about the 1/2 balls, it got me wondering about something I've always wondered about.Can you shoot shot out of a rifled barrel.I keep thinkin you'd have a barrel obstruction problem, but I figure if it was tight enough it shouldn't. Anybody ever try this? Would it ruin the barrel even if it didn't BLOW it up?

 

[bob1961]

there was a post bout it not to long ago....that some say why....it's no different then shooting a sabot with a pistol bullet i think....just using the sabot and shot with an over shot card might work....has anyone tried this.............bob

 

[brubincam]

the rifling will put a spin on the shot just like the bullit,,,,lousy paterns,,, :results:

 

[rabbit03]

Hey Bluebuck

I don't know if I would want to enter any skeet shoots but it will shoot. I personally (in my youth of course) have shot rocks, shot with no ill effects out of a muzzleloader. If you can poke it down the barrel on top of a charge it will come out!

rabbit03

PS the rocks did a good job on Starlings.

 

[redwing]

I tried this in a number of rifles and handguns. As stated the pattern is very poor. The number one problem is awful fouling of the bore. You can use chilled{hard}Shot but it isn't worth the effort.

Redwing :redthumb:

 

[dodgecity]

I never tried it in a muzzleloding rifle. It is perfectly safe to do, but, as has already been posted by others, you will probably be disappointed with the results. The centrifugal force created by the spin of the rifleing disperses the pattern very quickly. I have loaded shot cartridges for my 45 lc revolver, and it is useful for shooting vermin at very, very close range when you don't want to be using bullets for safety reasons, etc. I suppose the same application would be viable for a ml rifle.

 

[musketman]

The centrifugal force created by the spin of the rifleing disperses the pattern very quickly.

Load the sabot with steel shot that has been magnetized, this will help hold it together... :hmm:

Remember T/C had hotshot capsules for their Contenders, they were subjected to centrifugal forces as well, only differences was they used a screwed on capsule shredder at the end of their barrels...

I wonder if one of those .45 caliber T/C hotshot capsules could be patched and loaded in a muzzleloader? :hmm:

 

[BrownBear]

Hey MM.

I shot both the 44 and the less common 357 TC Hot Shots for a long time. Patterns were very good with the "shredder" in place. You could get game killing patterns all the way out to 25 yards or so- not much different than a 410. The screwin shredder has what looks like deep-cut rifling with no twist. I miked its interior and remember that it was quite a bit smaller than the bore, but I don't remember the #'s.

I sincerely doubt you could get the shot capsules to stabilize out of the slow twist in a rifle. I still have some 357 capsules around and they are longlonglonglong- A full 2.000 inches! The 44 capsules were the same length, as I recall. They wouldn't even stabilize out of the Contender with the shredder unscrewed, so I don't think there's a chance ithey would stay point frontwards in a rifle.

 

[adbranaman]

I have a 22mag.Derringer that I've shot #12 Shot out of.For snakes.At two and a half feet I got a 8- 12 inch pattern. I wondered why it spread so quickly. I was thinking if my 50 cal. flinter would shoot #5 or #6 shot with a decent pattern up to 20 or 30 yards it might be worth fooling with for squrriel or other small game. Southern Indiana is pretty hilly so we don't normally shoot that far.I've got a 32cal. that is nice, but my eyesite is getting worse.Old age I guess. I'm thinking BP shotgun about now.I just don't have the money right now to buy one.I could sell my Winchester Ranger semi-auto 12 ga. with poly choke and red dot scope. NNNAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! :nono:I find it to hard to sell any of my guns.Their like children to me :cry: :crackup: I guess I'll play around with the idea and see what happens.