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This thread reminds me about the time I bought a 9mm shotgun about ten yrs ago, Advertised at the time as a "garden gun". This was not an airgun, It was a powder cartridge gun which fired dustshot. I thought at the time that it seemed to be the ideal gun for short range rats. What a load of **** thatgun turned out to be. I doubt it would kill a rat at five feet!, On test the pellets would not even dent a washing-up liquid bottle at ten feet away. and the price of the cartridges were phenomenal.

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I regularly use a 9mm with great effect. There were some really poor cartridges on the market a few years ago, as you say, filled with almost a kind of dust, which were useless. This sounds like what you must have had.

 

I am paying about £6 for 50 which is only just slightly more than 12 gauge shot. The idea of it not puncturing a plastic bottle is that it is safe to use at close quarters in buildings without causing damage / injuring you.

 

There are different shot sizes available, 7 1/2 shot and 10 shot being the most common.

 

I have killed rats at 20ft with them, and brought down pigeons flying over the barn roof.

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