.22 CB longs

Looking at the feet per second they compare to a powerful pellet gun. I have shot cb caps and have taken out medium dogs. Use your imagination.
 
John/az2, CB caps have much less power than a .22 short standard velocity. They are greatly affected by wind. Accuracy is not as good as a .22 short.

As far as hunting, I would not try to shoot anything with the CB Long that I would not shoot with a pellet gun.

Regards! DaMan


[This message has been edited by DaMan (edited October 26, 2000).]
 
I used to live in a place in the city where
there was a field and a creek that ran behind my house with a boat load of ground squirrels running around. The big plus of CB ammo is it's inherent quietness when fired. I used to open the dining room window and take the screens out and shoot my old model 67 single shot from a rest on the dining room table. Those darn squirrels sure were fun to shoot, and nobody in the neighborhood was any the wiser.

spike
 
Always keeping in mind my spiritual nature and unending desire for a clean kill: I'd say ten to fifteen yards, and squirrels to housecats...Headshots, of course.

:), Art
 
cjviper

My dear old dad, God rest his soul, used his trusty Winchester model 69 with a Redfield peep sight and Remington .22 shorts, to eliminate over 100 squirrels (he stopped counting at 100) smack dab in the middle of the Greater Kansas City metro area, using a large pin oak tree at 12-15 yds, as his backstop. He just waited until the little buggers stopped in front of the base of the tree and "POP". He fired from just inside his glassed-in back sun porch. From the back yard, it wasn't even as loud as as an airgun.

He finally gave it up when one of his neighbors commented to the local PD about the squirrel carcasses that kept showing up in his compost pile. The LEO's made a house-to-house canvas to find "the culprit", but never did. ;)

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Plainsman, I used to go out around dusk and gather up the carcasses along with weeding the garden and put them all in a bag for the trashman to pickup. I've left my old 67 completely stock, and was getting really accurate shots right from the old non-adjustable iron sights. I really shouldn't shoot the thing so much, as it's definately an antique, but I really enjoy shooting this particular rifle!!

spike
 
Greetings,

I use these in my garden for nighttime marauding possums and raccoons for the noise reasons referred to above. I use a Ruger MkII with a Beamshot laser sighted in to the distance (twenty feet) to the wooden fence that is my backstop, bright light in the other hand. Shot placement is everything.

Head shots are best, but always iffy on a moving animal. I have missed head shots and hit the back of the neck instead. Very loud, albeit brief, raccoon screaming was the result. From the front, I try for the center of the chest. From the side, through both lungs and the heart, or as close as I can get. Under the "armpit" is good. Be ready with another round for a coup de grace if necessary. CB's will not cycle your .22 auto. Art's point about a clean kill is a good one.

Regards and be safe,

Ledbetter
 
cjviper, of the 6 or 8 .22's I have, the model 67 is my favorite. It is my first choice for squirrels even over my scoped 10/22. I wish Winchester would make a new run of these.

As far as the CB's, like any other round, shot placement is critical.
 
Yes. The sub-sonic uses a heavier bullet going (IIRC) twice as fast. The CB Long is about 400 fps with a 30 grain bullet.

Giz
 
I did some work with the .22 CB Shorts sometime back. The chronied at 950 FPS out of my 69 Winchester. I did not chronie them in my Rem 550-1 Autoloader but did try them in that rifle, and they are about 90-95% in functioning the action. The main reason that I wanted them was for noise reasons. In the spring in the Atchafalaya Basin the snakes are teeming, and the area is also full of other users (fishermen, crawfishermen, etc.). The old timers are not concerned about you firing there (if they know who you are :))because they know that I will not take an unsafe shot, but some do not know this and are worried, hence the CB caps. If they can't hear it they can't worry. Years ago when I was a kid of about 15 or so, I was sitting on my old mans front porch cleaning my trusty Win. 69, when next door in my neighbors front yard pecan tree was the biggest old red fox squirrel I had ever seen. Well we lived in town but it was down a dead end street, and there was our home then the neighbors then the Bayou Teche, and across the bayou was nothing but woods and cane fields. I eyeballed the area for anyone, and seeing no one slipped a regular .22 Short in the rifle. PUTTTT dead squirrel. Only problem that I had not forseen was that in falling out of the tree the squirrel landed on my neighbors roof. Now this was an old-antebellum home (It even served as a Yankee field hospital during the War of Northern Agression {thats the Civil War to you yankees :D})with a tin roof! BOINGGGGGG goes the squirell as he first hits the tin.... KLANKITY KLANKITY KLANKITY as he rolls down the roof and finally THUD as he lands on her front steps. I gave it a few secs., saw no movement, and moved in to retrieve supper errr the squirrel. Well Miss Eunice (the resident) was about 75 years old or so at the time, and just as I was picking it up she slings open the front door, and there I am with the rifle in one hand and Mr. Fox Squirrel in the other! Oh oh! I figure right then and there that I am dead meat, then she calmy says "Hi Carlyle, that was a pretty good shot, but you are in the wrong place, you should be in my back yard, they have more of them there than in the front yard! Kill all you can because they eat all my pecans and I hardly have any to pick to make pecan pies." Well anyone that has ever tasted Miss Eunice's pecan pies knows it is a sin to let squirrles eat her pecans, so in doing my public duty I made a beeline to the hardware store up the street for a box of .22 Short CB Caps, and within 20 mins or so had 8 of those bigggg squirrels. This went on until years later when I left to enter the USAF, all in the city limits and to this day no one was the wiser. Oh! for some good squirrel right now smothered down in onion and lots of good Cajun seasonings, served over steaming freshly cooked rice, with fresh white beans......gonna make me get that rifle out right now :D.

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Carlyle Hebert
 
Carlyle - are your sure on the CB shorts? I've shot a bunch of those. They do not seem to be very fast at all. The velocity you quote sounds like a short to me..

Giz
 
boy i sure wish i had an old winchester 1906 pump w/ a MAXIUM SILENECED FIREARMS NY,NY can on the factory threaded BBL. I could go out in my back yard and shoot into sandbags without anyone knowing.
 
I typed it from memory (the 950) but I will run some more again this week if I get the chance. I do remember that I was getting close to 450-500 with my Crossman pellet gun pumped to the max! :D that was wiht the pellets not bb's.

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Carlyle Hebert
 
CB Shorts lounder than CB Longs?

Wow.

I shoot CB Shorts at my parents place (in the backyard). Even though it is within the city limits, several kids still shoot .22s in their backyard occassionally. Given, this may be North Georiga and the residents don't care.. I'd rather be careful.

At any rate, John, CB ammunition is good for shuttin' up your dog. That is.. when the dog won't stop barkin' until you step outside to dispatch the nightly possum. Great for takin' care of business without scarin' the neighbors!

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