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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3460483" data-attributes="member: 5412">Yes. ^^^^Same here. For those that haven't used them, it's typically #12 shot which is tiny and doesn't carry much penetration. You have to be really....REALLY close to kill a rat or snake with them because the rifling in the barrel really spreads the shot out quickly. Quickly like a foot diameter in a few feet. Not many pellets within that diameter. I use them on the wood bees that come around the house. Call it redneck trapshooting. They hover just before going into the nest, and they go down. I could use spray on them, but the shot shells are more fun. You can buy capsules from speer to load your own using whatever shot you want. I have some for .38 and some for .44. Killed one rabbit with the .44 a few years back. I was using #7.5 shot at about 4 yards. Only three pellets hit it after taking the skin off and it was just sitting there sideways under a bush. Dead is dead though.</blockquote>