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I have a box of Winchester .22 long CB-match ammo and am wondering if this is effective for hunting of varmints larger than pest birds or squirrels? I am thinking around raccoon or Opossum sized?

The limited rounds I have test fired shows that it is quiet stuff compared to the regular .22 ammo. I also have some CCI "Quiet .22 LR", I am in the early stages of tests for sound, etc. Will that ammo work on larger pests? I luckily bought both boxes before the Obama scare and they have been in storage ever since.

Dan's a great story teller.

I enjoyed that post, having been there, done that, although not to the Dan's level.

DF

CB stands for Cat Bullet

Yep, that's why I saved a link to it!

Extra points if they have a collar on.

Not sure about how effective CB's are but my Aunt failed to execute herself with a Win Short! Glanced off her right temple and right out through a double pane window. A lot of blood, for some reason she went for another but changed her mind and hung the gun back in the garage. She then cleaned up some of the blood she trailed all over the house in her quest for whatever. Myself, wife and my mother found her laying on the bed with several of those thin pads layed down to absorb the blood(she was a neat freak).

Rubbed most of the finish off the 512 getting her DNA off it and it is still setting in my work room. Just can't get into using it or selling it. I give it a little room just in case she rubbed some bad juju into it!

So that is surely considered bad luck with Shorts anyhoo. She did get the job done the second goround with prescription drugs when she couldn't find another gun to buy in town after over a year of counceling etc. Goes to prove that despite being a millionaire doesn't mean you know ballistics, are happy or make appropriate choices!

A CB .22 has an 18 gr bullet @ about 700 fps. My .177 pellet rifle (Benjamin Marauder) shoots a 10.5 magnum pellet at about 900 fps. I mention this because last year I shot a racoon that was out during the day that was under my wife's bird feeder. I have the pellet rifle for squirrel control and was about to shoot a squirrel when the racoon showed up. When it looked at me I shot it between the eyes and flop, flop, dead. Normally though I use my .22 LR for shooting close range pests of that size. All it really has to do is penetrate the skull. If your CB capa can do that at really close range, it'll get the job done.

Not to be a nitpicker, Cooper, it's a 29 grain bullet, FWIW.

I've been impressed with the CB, (stands for conical ball, but cat bullet applies well). I've cleanly taken lawn lions (without collars) with a Kennedy/Lincoln hold with CBs. Biggest problem I have with CBs is that I'm almost out of them and can't find them anywhere.

One summer I was working for the National Park Service on the north rim of the Grand Canyon near Tuweep doing a biological inventory. We were camping outside the park and there were a lot of jack rabbits and I decided to forage for much of our meat.
I killed a lot of jack rabbits that summer and came to prefer CB caps as you could hear the smack when they hit and the rabbits typically dropped on the spot rather than running like they usually did when hit with LR ammo.

Jacks have a reputation for being pretty chewy. How'd you cook 'em?

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Possums eat rattle snakes!

Long and slow. One old Jack was so tough we ended up cooking it till the bones dissolved and the meat was still abit on the tough side !

I've killed more schit with .22 CB Shorts than most would believe. They are pure poison on rabbits, squirrels, groundhogs, skunks, cats, birds (including turkeys), and if you do your part, they'll put down a deer or a feral dog.

So?

I've often wondered how possums survive. After all they are slow and not very bright but they have to compete with racoons who are nimble and clever.

I've come to the conclusion that possums must be willing to eat some things that racoons won't. Now that's a sobering notion.

...I think you are correct... I remember reading a magazine article a long time ago about a guy who always ate possum...until the day he was riding along and came to the very ripe carcase of a dead horse...he stopped to look and a possum which had been dining "inside" crawled out and ran off...

Bob

I'm thinking of picking up some of these - seems like they would be quiet AND deadly!

http://www.ableammo.com/catalog/qui...egmented-hollow-point-rdbx-p-139922.html

A bunch of years ago my brother-in-law was tracking a doe he had shot with his bow. Said he saw her up the hill laying on her side,but he thought it looked like maybe she was still breathing because he thought he saw her side move. He started quietly working towards her hoping to put another arrow in her if need be. Said he got about ten yards from her and thought to himself "Geez, somethings wrong, she shouldn't smell this bad", but she had quit "breathing". It was about the third week of our archery season and very warm. He walks over, grabs a hind leg to roll her over and out runs a opossum. His deer was another fifty yards or so on up the hill.


Dave.

Apparently some foreign made CB caps use 15-20 gr. bullets (RWS, Aguila). I got my info here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_CB

And here http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2011/08/are-cb-caps-as-good-and-accurate-as-pellets-part-2/

I did see where CCI has a CB Short that is 29 grain. They are a different cartridge than a CB Cap. I didn't notice that the OP was talking about CB Longs, that would be a 29 grain bullet. Either way, they should be ok. The least powerful I ever purchased were shorts.