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While eating a Sunday dinner recently my wife looked out the window and said "There is a badger in our backyard", and we live in the suburbs not the country. We do have a chicken coup in the back yard and he was messing around with the wire trying to get in. I had previous experience with raccoons on our front porch eating the cat food and had prepared for another raccoon attack with a Ruger Single Six 6.5" load with CB caps. I quickly grabbed it and went out into the fenced backyard and shot at the badger at about 20-25 yards and it appears that I hit him 2 times out of the six by his reaction which was very minimal to say the most.
I then hurried downstairs to get a dedicated CZ .22lr bolt scoped rifle with a suppressor attached and loaded it up with CCI SV solids. By then he had crossed the back yard and was about 20-25 yards away when I shot him twice with those SV rounds. The first one must have hit him farther back than optimal and maybe in his hips as he was dragging the back end when I shot him in the head with the second shot. DRT.
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subsonics are all i use for rimfire applications anymore. squirrel, armadillo, rabbit, and other form of vermin fall before it like a scythe. wolf MT is the best, CCI SV 2nd best.
Uber Demanding Rifle Aficionado
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I like the Aguila SS HP's for rabbits and gophers.
Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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'Flave, I use those, too.
But my primary suburban crow & skunk load is the RWS SS HP thru a threaded Savage in black cherry Tacticool put together for wife.
With Aviator on it it's "click-Thump" and dead crows tumbling from pine.
�When in doubt, I whip it out.� Uncle Ted
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Aviators are key.
No doubt.
Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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