Years ago my father had acquired a old single shot 22 bolt action rifle that someone had cut down into a handgun with a 12 to 14 inch barrel. They had engraved and burned the words " rat shooter" on the side of the stock. My father rebarreled it and restocked it. He had owned a trailer court in east tenn. There were some colorful characters there to say the least. It probably came from one of them, he simply wanted the action.
Anyhoo, I was searching out some info on Sylvan Hart and came across a cut down rifle called a rat gun. Sylvan had lived in Idaho, my dad Tennessee. One of my gunsmith friends here in Michigan was looking for a stevens crackshot. He said he was having a hard time finding one because most had been cut down by trappers in this area of Michigan.
Is rat shooter a common term for a cut down 22 rifle?
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