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Rook cartridge? Garden Gun?
Fiocchi 9mm Flobert
You can get .410 brass cartridges still for reloading. The 9mm brass cartriges are still available but rare to get from an RFD. All smoke and noise if I remember but effective on rats and the like at close range. The advantage was that there was little damage to farm buildings and the like from over shot.
yeh...or if your really keen a .444 marlin case will do for reloading 410 and can be reused thou often without a crimp, their was a guy was using a card over shot wad and using mastic to seal them up as a crimp cant really be acheivedYou learn something everyday.
i would have thought attaching a bayonet would have been more effective than a garden gun against rabbits hahaGarden gun, used one as a boy to shoot rabbits invading my PE teachers veg garden. Very close range stuff
i never thought of that...and i have seen a couple of enfeild to 410 conversions...i do know if you pop the card out of a 410 3 sg shot pop in nicely under the crimp. desert island kinda stuff but i digressOr just turn the base of a .303 Brit cartridge down a little and you can easily fire form full length brass .410 cartridges. Many will not realise but in the early days of "The Troubles" bolt action .410 shotguns were being used as rifles using .303 rounds as ammunition, before they had enough money/resource to buy Armlites.
Back to the 9mm garden gun, nickle plated brass cartridges are readily available. Okay, well maybe not "readily" more in fits and starts as it is not really a popular round. Anschutz made a beautiful model of garden gun, very nicely engineered. I would tend to agree though, not very balistically effective.