Raider said:
I remember reading that Remington, maybe Savage or Mossberg made a smooth bored "weapon" that looked like a 22 cal rifle many years ago. It shot 22 cal shotshells and was used for a game called "Mo-Skeet". It had a tiny little thrower and everything. Those things are somewhat collectible nowadays . Maybe those shells were used in that gun.
RIKA
As a sideline, I remember reading a couple of months ago about a recent manufacture of smoothbore .22LR long guns. The authur tested them on Ritz thrown as skeet....lol.
I was sorely tempted to get one JUST to be a spartbutt. On the WMA I have hunted alligators on in the past, the rule is shotguns only to used to finish off captured alligators. Slugs are legal in those shotguns. (...too many people a couple of hundred acres away in open marshes for rifles to be used without some safety concerns.) This pisses my off because I have ALWAYS used a .22LR from a chipmunk to finish off the alligators since it messes up the least jowl meat and hide. (I've been using a .410 with buckshot, but that is irrelevant.)
So, I figured it I got one of those, I could argue that it was a .22 caliber SHOTGUN (legal) and a .22LR was just a 22-caliber SLUG. Since the longest shot on a captured alligator is usually less than 6 inches, accuracy isn't a concern.
BUT, since I worked on that WMA, I figured it wouldn't be worth my while to rock THAT boat. I wish some other hunter would do it, though.
KJ