Shooting squirrels in town with CB 22's, I found that many escaped to live another day. When I did fatally connect, i could see evidence of the critter having been shot previously. I started filing the tips to a wad cutter profile, and the tree rats started hitting the ground for good. Accuracy was not affected.
Charlie
CCI .22LR SGB Small Game Bullets have ~3/32" flat meplat as well to improve terminal performance on squirrels and such...
https://www.cci-ammunition.com/products/detail.aspx?use=2&loadNo=0058When CCI began offering these I got some to shoot squirrels and such with and they worked well. At that time our lease was overrun with porcupines, so one day when we were over there working on tree stands I had my boy take his 77/22 and a bunch of those CCI SGB’s to thin out the porcupines. He was within a few hundred yards of us all the time and he shot a pile of them. Every time he shot one we could hear the very distinctive smack of those flat-nosed bullets hitting. He never shot one more than once.
