Dim memory from my y'ute....

and quite possibly mistaken. Today's .22 shotshells sport a plastic capsule filled with #12 shot. I think there are the 'pinched nose' style too. There may be other designs but I haven't looked. Anyway, I remember a pinched nose design but it contained 3-BB's of approximate 22 caliber. I haven't seen them (assuming a correct memory) for some time now. Did/do they exist?

No reason; just remembering...

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I do believe at one time CCI offered two styles of 22 shot, size????, one was a bunch of mini lead balls and one with 3 or 4 larger balls, steel or lead??? Blue capsules, T/C Arms had a shot cartridge that was a off white or lite brown smooth nose shot shell rounds in a several calibers.

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Somewhere in my stash is a full box of 50 .44 cal capsules loaded with shot from T/C. I seem to remember them making special barrels that would shoot these better than a regular rifled barrel but that may be my mind playing tricks on me. I know the .45/.410 barrel had a detachable straight line choke to stop a .410 wad from spinning to give a better pattern. I assume these capsules were made to reload in regular 44 mag brass, but I never really looked into them since I didn’t have a 44 mag until recently.

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Back in the late 70s, IIRC. They were made by Speer. Had recently bought my first 44mag - a Ruger SBH and was trying all sorts of things. The shot capsules were a disappointment.

Found the few remaining in the catacombs and took two pictures which shows an article on them in the Speer #10 loading manual.

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These have interested me far more than they should have. Maybe reading Mr Nonte at an early age affected me…

I have some full cylinder length loaded .45 shot shells. The .45 acp’s are loaded for a 1917 Smith and made out of.308 cases fit in two shell ‘1/3 moon’ clips. And some .45 Colt cylinder length shells made up from .30/40 Krag or .303 Brit cases. Both shoot fairly well and deliver close to .410 shotshell results (which I have never been enamored with) but from memory both lead something awful
. Not sure what benefit either would have; I guess slight better chance of hitting a snake or something. I would. It truest either to out down any moms of bird or squirrel. I have tried shot shells loaded with a round ball out front way back in the past but don’t recall those results. If the round ball pushes out fairly accurate with a small cloud of shot behind , maybe it would us the best bet.

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I ended up with a bunch of those. Translucent red and blue almost "pill like" capsules. I gave them away...maybe to Murphy? I no longer remember. I still have a big baggie of yellow .44 Speer shot capsules with the separate lids. I probably won't ever get to them.

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Don’t recall seeing those but they sound neat! I have a few of the older pinched nosed ones around but they came loose, not in original packaging so I just assumed they were loaded with 9’s or 12’s like the others I’ve seen.

I got a kick out of loaded multi ball loads in 45 colt. I took some to a cowboy shoot years ago to try out after the shoot (they were much more laid back then). I shot them at the bowling pins we used sometimes as targets. They really knocked them down, much better than a regular .45 load did, which was pretty impressive. We surmised that the frost ball hit the pin and got it moving and the second ball hit it a split second later and gave it another shove to really put the wall up on it.

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If there was any accuracy to be had, it would be a bit of fun to shoot 3 instead of 10. Or, if a feller wanted to "help" a competitor, slip one into his string and get him to wonder where the extra holes came from! Not that we'd do anything like that of course. :-D

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That would get some fun looks. I’ve heard stories of bullseye shooters slipping a BP loaded .45 acp round into a buddy’s ammo bag. They said the guy pretty much threw his accurized 1911 down the range because he thought it blew up on him! Then later on he was out back taking it completely apart to clean it!

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The only crimped nose 22 shells I've ever seen had #12 shot in them. Winchester and CBC are the two brands that come to mind. Dad kept a box of the CBC on hand and ran them through the old Stevens Favorite to keep the rats in check. He'd hear the rat scurrying along a rafter, point the rifle at the sound, switch on the light, the rat would freeze in place and he'd squeeze the trigger. The clay roofing tiles never suffered from the impact, but the rats did. He'd scoop up the carcass with the dustpan and toss it outside, the neighborhood cats would do the honors of disposing of the cadaver. Larger shot might be interesting, but never saw any anywhere.

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You can still get the crimp-nose .22 shotshells. I bought a box a couple of years ago to do battle with the carpenter bees that were trying to eat my tool shed. They weren't as easy to hit as I thought they would be with the little Excam RX22 I was using, but I finally got to where I was reducing the population somewhat. Then they quit coming the last two springs - dunno why.

I first tried the CCI shotshells with the blue capsules. They were harder to hit the bees with so I switched to thr older crimped shells.

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There was a rare 22 rimfire cartridge with a crimped nose that had 3 .19" or .20" round balls. You could differentiate them from ratshot in that the crimp was just slightly open enough to see the foremost ball. My nearest neighbour had some for making gatos feel unwelcome. I bought some in the '90s when "cheaper than dirt" catalogues were new to me. I cannot remember the brand but the box and labeling differed from the domestic big-4 rimfire manufacturers and gave the impression of european.

The same neighbour somehow got the idea that spent pecan hulls were of value in the manufacturing of priming compounds and smokeless powders. They were in the side trade of selling shelled pecans as they had quite a grove and they kept all of the cracked shells. As the storage sheds were nigh-on a century old and in disrepair, the heirs, step-grandsons set them ablaze. Pecan hulls make a very noisy and hot, high flaming blaze once getting going.

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