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.22 short for racoon trap line. Adequate? Always used LR hollow points but have shorts to use up.

A friend of mine used the even quieter CB's of whatever. The hole in the head is what actually does the trick.

Yes they work well, in close quarters. Many critters fell to shorts, when hit between the shiny spots.

CB short to the brain has worked dozens of times.

Sounds like a pellet gun.

Work fine between the peepers.

Shorts or CB caps both work just fine.

Yes

For trapped coons, absolutely. For one 60’ up a tree and refusing to present a head shot, I want something with a little more horsepower.

Pistol or rifle?
Like em in rifle just fine.
Killed stuff to 25 yards.
My 541T HB shot em decent.
Get CB longs, feed better.

My buddy used one exclusively on his trap lines. Works on foxes, coyotes, bobcats too.

I havent killed anything w CCI Quiet yet.
Reg or segmented.

You can't kill anything with .22 shorts. I read that on the inna net, so it's got to be true.







If you're really serious there is a much better tool available.

Not everyone is a stone cold killer like you.

It ain't the arrow -- it's the archer.

The shorts sell higher than long rifle ammo now.

Don't underestimate shorts. There have been many beef cattle killed with them through the years. A head shot is all it takes.

Thanks all. Quiet has become important. Have the CB's too.

If you have a choice, the segmented Long Rifles are the way to go, either in the Subsonic or HV flavors (the Quiets don't impress me much), or HV Short HPs. I've killed a lot of raccoons in my traps using all of those and they work great, the Quiets, not so much. Subsonics are "just enough" faster to kill better.

RWS subsonic HP. Killed a bunch of chit with them and not all little chit, either. All DRT

Colibri and super colibri. No powder at all. Just primed cases with bullets. Fox. Coyotes. Coons. Bobcats. Opossums. Never and issue in a trap.