![]() Thing about varmits is that clean kills are nice but dirty kills are acceptable. That is not forum talk, zombiequest or fantacy speaking but the experiences of using. As far as I am concerned the usefullness of a. You are absolutely correct about the necessary power. The coyote shot was not a clean kill but he was dead by moning and I found him in the field behind the house. I got the coyote and one coon before they departed. One night I looked out at 3am and had 3 coons on top of the wire with a coyote tugging the gate wire. The kills were not always instant but they seldom got out of the yard. After removing the glass from the kitchen window I had a clear shot aty short range. I mounted a lazer on the scope at a 45% angle and a red flaslight beam 45% the other side, zeroed the scope and lazer for he same poi. I know, I know, shot placement is key, but just try to guarentee perfect shot placement at 2am, in the dark, on a moving target with screaming, flapping chickens in the background!Ĭlick to expand.I had a portable chicken run that I moved up to about 25 yards from the house. Racoons are very tough critters and one needs to balance power with noise abatement. It is advertised at 1000fps, carries a nice HP round and was as effectve as either CCI MM or Winchester SuperX on the masked bandits. At least that is what they told me, wouldn't know myself of course since I hear those kids of things are illigal. Someone told me that when fired through a pop bottle, stuffed with steel wool and taped to the muzzle, it is Hollywood quiet making less noise than a Daisy Red Ryder. I was shooting one racoon each night for the entire month of June, with zero comments from anyone. Out of a long barreled SS (24") the Foicchi was very quiet and brought no complaints from the neighbors when fired at 2am. I discovered the Fiochi ammo during a small war I fought with racoons that were trying to kill my chickens. I live in a rural area, but have neighbors 100 yards away, one of them being a county Circuit Court judge. My favorite quiet ammo is the Fiochi sub sonic. The Aquillia ammo has the reputation of doing exactly what you discribe and some folks have replaced their barrels in order to shoot that specific ammo! Our motto is "We may not hit you right between the eyes, but we're still going to mess your face up." The bullets flatten out when they hit and look like little fried eggs about 1/2" in diameter. ![]() Accuracy seems pretty decent and we have shooting stations at 50 and 80 yards with 7", 6" and 4" gongs. So far this summer and fall, we've gone through almost 2,100 rounds of the CCIs with only one that didn't fire (it fired on the second try) and they're pretty clean. It's a pretty drastic noise level difference. That's when we pull out the Henrys and the quiet ammo and may shoot 400-500 quiet rounds between the two of us over a couple of days. Luckily, there aren't many and most don't spend much time there. After all that, and since we're shooting near the lake shore, you start to feel sorry for the neighbors. During a typical couple of days, she shoots a couple boxes of 17s (Daly Little Sharps), I shoot a couple boxes of 22 Mags (1885 Low Wall), and I'll take 30-40 BPC shots (45-70 Sharps or 44-40 1873 lever gun) or shots with one of the front-stuffers. My wife and I shoot a lot of the Quiet 22LRs when we go up north to visit my dad for a weekend and shoot gongs or our plywood buffalo.
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