With an exploded coon population and zero liking for them there's nothing more therapeutic than sitting amongst the pines and spruce in my favorite bush chair near the pond. A mild breeze out of the south cuts through the heat and keeps the mosquitos away...it's just enough wind to rustle the leaves and deaden any noise foreign to the coon, like the click of the safety latch on my .22 Marlin.
Had a group of 5 come in right around 2.00am. Scanning the bush line with my jack-light configuration I can see every coon perfectly through the scope and every one of them are in the crosshairs.
Out of the 5, 3 were unlucky, all terminated with CCI .22 Shorts at a distance of 60 and 75 ft. One coon took a profile shot with the bullet whacking him just behind the front left shoulder. That bullet passed right through that pest and exited the opposite side with chunks of lung following...that coon was dead before the sound left the barrel.
It's 7.00am right now and the crows are making a lot of noise out there as they flock in and check out the blood stained ground littered with chunks of coon lung and fur...and no doubt those crows will find some brain bits too after one stinking coon violently intercepted a rnd with it's temple lobe...silly coon. The 3rd coon kill was nothing spectacular, just a "center mass" shot followed by a lot of squeals, grunting, growling and torn up ground.
All in all the coon population dropped by 3 today...now it's time for a snooze.
The subsonic rnds are still louder than the shorts...the only noticeable sound you hear with a short is the wallop when the "bullet hits the bone"...the other coons just look at their buddy as if he's doing a happy dance while coughing up lung whereas the subsonic has just enough noise to scare them into hiding.
Used them in pistol and rifle, suppressed and unsuppressed, for years now. The heavy bullet and subsonic velocity give it quite the "rainbow" trajectory, but If you zero at a specific range, and then engage at that range, they're spot on.
I've got a suppressed bolt-action that I can hear/feel the firing pin strike the round, and it makes a sound like pushing a key on an old electric typwriter.
@BulletStopper...that's why I use the CCI shorts, the firing pin is louder...the only downside is the mild variation in consistency as in 1 in 4 rnds will go radical...I use the CCI on rats and squirrels too but the thing with rats is that they have to be hit dead center of shoulder from the side or anywhere in the head from the ear line to between the eyes or else they just don't die...I've hit rats with a body shot and all that happened was a bit of acrobatics and then they'd barrel out to heal up and then right back to doing what rats do best, being a nuisance...no shit but at 25ft I'll smash a house fly on a fence post with my Marlin.
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I've got a suppressed bolt-action that I can hear/feel the firing pin strike the round, and it makes a sound like pushing a key on an old electric typwriter.
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