When it comes to edge flint, most people first think of the .22-inch edge blazing rifle long bullet, that is, the .22LR bullet, which is widely used in shooting competitions, recreational shooting and small animal hunting, and is currently the most productive bullet in civilian bullets. There is also a relatively rare .22-inch edge fire short bullet, the .22 Short bullet, which is smaller in length and power than the .22LR bullet, which was previously used in 25m pistol rapid-fire competitions, and later after the project switched to the .22LR bullet, this .22 Short bullet was used less. Between the .22LR and the .22 Short, there is also a more obscure .22-inch edge firing long bullet, the .22 Long bullet, which is rarely seen today, but still exists. In the 20th century, there were the .22-inch Winchester-Magnum Rim Flint (.22WMR) and the .17-inch Hornety-Magnum Rim Pyrrhing (.17HMR), the fierce characters of the small-caliber edge pyrromis.
From left to right: .22LR, .22Long, and two-shot .22 Short
But if you tell you about a 9mm edge shotgun bomb, or a 9mm Flaubert shotgun, can you imagine what it is? Most of you've never heard of such a bullet.
9mm edge firing shotgun shell
The 9mm edge firing shotgun shell is a small shotgun shell that is very rare in the United States but very common in the European civilian market, using a brass shell with a flared edge, and the projectile is encapsulated in the front of the shell and sealed with a piece of paper. The power of the 9mm edge fire shotgun bomb is very small, such as for hunting can only kill small birds, more use is to clear pests and small pests in the garden - in the European countryside, it is inevitable to encounter nasty snakes, squirrels and rats, if you clean up with your bare hands, there is a risk of being bitten, taking a mop to beat it may damage crops and break the flower pot, so a feasible way is to use a 9mm edge fire shotgun shell to shoot a shot, killed on the spot, and small particle shotgun projectiles are not easy to cause collateral damage.
In fact, similar uses of guns and bullets in the United States is also available, the typical product is the United States CCI company production of a variety of snake shots, listen to the name to roughly know the use. CCI's snake shots are the smallest .22 inches, that is, .22LR caliber shotgun shells, and the larger ones are .38SPL, .357Mag, 9mm, .45ACP, etc., all of which are evolved from the same caliber pistol bullets modified with shotgun projectiles.
.22LR shotgun
There are some problems with the snake shot modified with pistol bullets and .22LR edge flint shells: these bullets were originally used for rifled guns, and when they were used to shoot shotguns, due to the influence of the rifle, the projectiles would rotate through the barrel, fly out of the muzzle to form a circular dispersion, disperse prematurely, form a dense projectile jet, the effective range is short, and the shooting accuracy is poor. According to the test of foreign users, firing a .22LR shotgun shell with a pistol, the projectile dispersion has been 8 inches when the muzzle is about 5 feet (about 1.5m), if the shooting distance is increased to 10-15 feet (about 3-4.5m), the projectile dispersion will be very sparse, and it is difficult to cause effective damage to the target.
Although the .38SPL, .357Mag, 9mm and other larger caliber snake shots have better effective range and projectile power than the .22LR caliber snake shot, these guns are charged in large quantities, and the muzzle noise is large when shooting, which will damage hearing if used in indoor environments.
In contrast, the 9mm edge firing shotgun shell is a more ideal choice: its power is moderate, enough to kill small pests such as snakes and rats, and the finely fragmented projectiles will not cause collateral damage; the shotguns are all smoothbore guns, and the smoothbore barrel will not let the shotgun projectiles fly excessively, the density is high, the shooting accuracy is good, and the effective range is longer. In addition to killing small pests, the 9mm edge fire shotgun shell can also be used to hunt small birds, compared to the more common .410 shotgun shell is too powerful, and the projectile that is shot out can easily break the limbs of small birds and become inedible.
The gun control policies of European countries are stricter than those of the United States, and many countries prohibit civilians from having rifles and pistols of military caliber, while there are fewer restrictions on single-shot smoothbore guns that fire 9mm edge shotguns. Because the 9mm edge shotgun shell can not be used on any kind of military gun, the gun that fires the bullet is some single or double-barrel smoothbore guns, nor can it fire military gun bullets, which is a pure civilian weapon, plus the bullet is very small, it is difficult to hurt people outside 20 yards, so it is very popular in Europe, and this type of gun has a special name called "Garden Gun".
Among the 9mm caliber "pastoral guns" in Europe, the more typical product is the Ziapa RC 92 single-barrel shotgun produced by the Italian company Ziapa. This gun is actually a 9mm shotgun version of Ziapa's famous single-generation storage gun "Badger", the receiver is alloy, the total weight is only 3.6 pounds, very light.
Ziapa RC 92 shotgun
The gun has no magazine, the use of a simple single-shot pick handle loading, no sight, by the upper edge of the barrel rough aiming, close to a snake, hit a vole is enough, the projectile fired at a distance is a little farther kinetic energy is very low, not to hurt people and destroy things.
Pry open the loaded Ziapa RC 92 and 9mm edge firing shotgun shells
Close-up of the barrel of the gun plucked open
In front of the trigger is a jam that opens the barrel
When the barrel is opened, the shell can pull out the empty shell outward
A close-up of the hammer and firing pin, which manually overwhelms the hammer before firing, is biased and flat like any other gun that fires bullets at the edges.
Such a Ziapa RC 92 shotgun retails for $258 as suggested on the company's website, but the 9mm edge fire bomb is extremely unpopular in the United States, so this shotgun is also difficult to buy in the United States.