.22 Rimfire 'SHORT' Ammunition

[Yokel Matt 918]

I'm talking about the reduced power short round ammo. Do any of you pesters / mochers use this stuff and if so how do you rate it and in what circumstances.

 

[mole catcher 1]

.22 subsonic rounds are ideal for lamping rabbits. acounted for many with this round.

[Yokel Matt 918]

I use the Eley subs myself but these are the 'half pint' sized ones...

 

[mole trapper 1,693]

Local Yocal, i am trying these out at the moment on a couple of caravan and camping site rabbit jobs, they are soooo quiet, still ricochet off hard ground though like a conventional higher powered sub, shame they arent hollow points, apparently though someone is in the process of manafacturing them.

30 ft lbs with a 29 grn soft hollow point through a rimmy, lubbly jubbly on more sensative rabbit jobs.

[Yokel Matt 918]

Thats the ticket Super quite yet hard hitting. Similar to a FAC airgun but with a bit more wallop... just thinking of a few situations where this could come in quite handy. Was pigeon shooting at the weekend, awsome hide, great pattern.. trouble was all the pigeons were lined up like tin cans on a wall on a cable about 60 yards away. Nothing behind but miles of fields but still feel uneasy about using regular .22LR rounds... what are your thoughts on using these... or not..

[mole catcher 1]

sorry miss read the post (again)

[mole trapper 1,693]

Come on MC, keep up.

The shorts have a very marked trajectory, we did some crude tests a couple of weeks ago, at a twenty yard zero spot on back to fifty yards they were dropping four inches, went out lamping and gave them a whirl, at fifty yards aiming at the tips of adult rabbits clean head shots every time, interestingly also every one was a pass through.

Just finishing the slab of 500 now, wont be buying more of them but when the hollow points come out i will try them.

Deffinetly have a use and as i said before, so so quiet. There were a few feed issues even in my Brno B/A, bolt could not pick them up from time to time and would ram them into the top of the chamber.

[Tikka.223 0]

Thats the ticket Super quite yet hard hitting. Similar to a FAC airgun but with a bit more wallop... just thinking of a few situations where this could come in quite handy. Was pigeon shooting at the weekend, awsome hide, great pattern.. trouble was all the pigeons were lined up like tin cans on a wall on a cable about 60 yards away. Nothing behind but miles of fields but still feel uneasy about using regular .22LR rounds... what are your thoughts on using these... or not..

 

 

Just how far will it travel?? 727 fps, bc of 0.072..............errr 890 odd yards!!!

http://www.eskimo.com/~jbm/calculations/maxdist/maxdist.html

 

Interestingly cci also do a 'long' ( not lr) using the same 29 grain solid, with virtually the same mv and energy, but without the feed problems, case size on the long is same as lr, finding them may be a problem though! Great for hard ground conditions where you don't want a ricochet to travel to far, but not so ideal for shooting in the air!

[James@Scarborough 0]

Local Yocal, i am trying these out at the moment on a couple of caravan and camping site rabbit jobs, they are soooo quiet, still ricochet off hard ground though like a conventional higher powered sub, shame they arent hollow points, apparently though someone is in the process of manafacturing them.

30 ft lbs with a 29 grn soft hollow point through a rimmy, lubbly jubbly on more sensative rabbit jobs.

 

You hit the nail on the head (or should I say the rabbit?) with that one mate. Spot on .

[IanF 0]

Yerrah!

 

The CCI 'CB Longs' get my vote as making less noise than most air rifles - whilst feeding in my b/a with no probs. Trajectory like a golfball however, so as has been suggested - sort out your drops.

 

Ideal garden round - and at FAC air levels. Does beg the question - why bother with air rifles unless for inside building work?

 

Rgds Ian

Edited July 23, 2007 by IanF