If I remember correctly, first out of the starting gate was their .22 Long Rifle
shot cartridge. For decades, we had been conditioned to the industry's, standard, rimfire, "scattergun cartridge," consisting of a Long Rifle case filled with a dollop of No.
This is the
shot cartridge. It is loaded with tiny #12 shot instead of a solid bullet and can best be described as a very small shotgun shell.
Indian arsenals produced several special .450 Martini cartridges, including a
Shot Cartridge for use by prison guards and army sentries.
The
shot cartridge just might be the most useful load.
It can hold a CCI
shot cartridge containing 52 pellets of No.
If so, it appears your cane gun was made to take the .44-40
Shot Cartridge, better known for its use by trick shooters than as a defensive tool.
In fact, after experimenting with a box or two on mixed barnyard fauna, we concluded that the .22
shot cartridge was a real bummer and resorted to our BB guns shooting big steel BB's for interior pest control.
And for those European "garden and collecting" guns that fire the 9mm Flobert rimfire
shot cartridge, Fiocchi offers 1/4 ounces of numbers 6, 7 1/2, 8 and 9 at 600 fps.
Winchester Remington, Federal, CCI and RWS loads all worked perfectly in the 30GM, including a CCI
shot cartridge that surprised me on an aluminum beverage can at 30 paces.
Most were designed around smoothbore .22s and the little, long rifle
shot cartridge packing 1/15-ounce of No.
These include match, high velocity, hyper velocity, heavy subsonic, tracers and even
shot cartridges. My advice regarding the .22 Long Rifle is pretty straightforward.