I got back from visiting my dad and he asked me if I had any
22 ammo. I told him that I had some and he gave me some little
boxes of "Peters" (never heard of them, I know that they are made in Arkansas) and a few boxes of Winchester.
I looked at the Winchester boxes and I came across these...
Look like Old Style crimped rimfire shot shells to me.
Likely filled with a bit of lead bird shot.
Good for killing snakes & mice at very very CLOSE range.
I think yes as QK says - and reading box legend, old style shot shells. Probably filled with #12 ''dust shot'' - and useful close up for snakes and rodents.
They do otherwise look similar to some blanks I have still for a ''Super Dynamic'' old nail gun - that's unlikely tho!
they are old birdshot ( no 12 a mentioned if memory serves me ) they will lead the hell out of a barrell if you shoot them , we used to use them for vermin ( birds ) in our outbuildings at night , go out with a flashlight and the trusty ruger single six and shoot them off the roost when i was a kid , no it isnt fair but it also soves a problem and wont perferate a tin roof on your shop
I haven't seen .22 shot shells like that in over 40 years. I was a Boy Scout and in 1964 I went to the National Jamboree in Valley Forge, PA. One of the things we did while there was get some marksmanship training. Included in this was shooting clays with a .22. We used the shot shells just like the ones in your picture. It was only later that I figured out how much easier it would have been to hit those clays if we had been using a shotgun.:yup:
Arkie
I remember using these .22's in a smoth bore .22 (shotgun?) in boyscout camp learning to shoot clay birds. (in the mid 60's). Shot shels for sure.
They sold everything. Guns, ammo, car parts, lawn mowers, you name it. I got a Browning 5 auto in 1962 for Christmas. The .22 is bird, rat, snake shot. I used some of this stuff to clear birds out of the Riverside drive-in theater. I didn't think it was hot enough to hurt the screen tower where the birds had taken over the inside. So I climbed up inside the screen tower with my trusty Winchester pump loaded with bird shot and blew out one of the screen tiles. That caused a very black spot in the movie that night.
-- Richard
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