Have you all ever seen this firearm before?
https://vizardsgunsandammo.com/blog...t-back-to-market-this-time-in-a-lever-action/
https://vizardsgunsandammo.com/blog...t-back-to-market-this-time-in-a-lever-action/
Smoothbores are not rifled, no twist in the barrel, hence are not rifles. Wayyyyy back around the founding of the republic they were as common (or more) than rifles. Largely due to the fact that one could fire a ball relatively accurately, or load them with shot for small game.
The garden gun is a 19th and 20th century adaptation of this, and as the article mentioned, they were relatively commonplace in the early to mid 20th century.
I like 'em and think every country home should have one behind the back door.
Pattern will hold together longer without a rifled barrel- still gonna be a very short range tool, though- on the flip side, Henry levers are works of art!How would this differ from shooting the same shells through a rifled barrel?
I watched the Henry video with 22 Plinkster and it looks really cool, but the range looks really short. I'm not sure you could tag a pest from very far away with it.
Over 40 cents per round for the ammo?
I think I'll pass.
ENABLER!
Seriously, I'm having a hard enough time trying to resist...
I call dibs on the first one that shows up in the classifieds here.
Surely SOMEONE will buy one and decide they don't like it, right?
I kinda get the idea here, but how is this any different, or better, than say a 20 gauge shotgun for the same purpose?