All the talk about squirrels made me remember 22 LR Shot

by Paul , Saturday, April 30, 2016, 21:22 (3131 days ago)

the old style crimped case 22 LR shot shells that is. Don't know how many boxes dad went through back in the day, but he put a bunch of rats down with the old style crimped shell #12 shot 22 LR rounds in the old Stevens Favorite. At across the bedroom range he usually used them at they did great work and did no harm to the spanish tile roof or the rafters. Some of those rats were as big as fox squirrels, but they'd go down with one pop from the old Stevens. He'd keep the rifle at the head of the bed and rigged a switch up so that he could turn on the light without moving out of bed. He'd hear a rat coming, line the rifle up on the sound, switch the light on, make any minor adjustments for point of aim and fire. The rats would stop dead still when the light hit them - and then they'd drop dead.

Anyway, haven't seen any of the old style shot shells in years. Does anyone still make them? The last ones I saw, if I recall correctly, were Winchester brand. Methinks I saw them at a gun store out in Colorado, probably about 21 years ago or so.