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Anybody got any on game experience with these? Mainly interested in experiences shooting large yard vermin. You know cats, coons, possums.

Obviously any 22lr bullet will kill with head shots but I'm more interested in how they would do with body shots. How do they compare with Power Points or Mini Mags in that respect?

I've shot alot of coons with 22lr pistols while hunting with hounds. Mini Mags and Power Points do the best but shots at the head are not always possible. Usually takes a few rounds to bring a big coon out of the tree with body shots. Hopefully the Velocitors will meet expectations!

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Looks like I'm on my own. Off I go!!!!

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I do a lot of ground squirrel and jackrabbit hunting. Velocitors are my favorite round because stingers are too long to shoot in my T/C 22 classic and velocitors have the similar energy. The velocitors really take care of jack rabbits and ground squirrels and this is extra important when you stretch out the range of a 22lr.

Conrad

I love the Velocitors. I have my 10/22 sighted in with them and though I plink with various 36 gr JHPs, the majority of my small game hunting is done with the Velocitors. The first time I shot a ground squirrel with one, I thought I had missed. Nope. The squirrel just went down so fast it looked like he was diving down his hole. I found him curled up right where he stood, dead as a door nail with some entrails blown out his back. I was like, "hmm." Shot a couple more of them that afternoon with the same results. One has a hole through its chest I could stick my pinky through and the other was missing most of its head. I don't have any experience with the Stingers, but the Velocitors are about the only .22 LR I have shot that can blow chunks out of critters. I wouldn't call it recoil, but even shooting them, you know the Velocitors have more "thump" than other .22s. Only other ones that came close were some hyper-velocity Agillas my brother and I tried a few years ago. But I don't know if those are even made anymore.

I can pick up Velocitors for about $2.50 a box of 50. Don't know how much they go for where you shop, but you can't go wrong picking up a box or two just to try them.

They shoot quite well in my 77/22 - around the 1/2" to 3/4" mark at 50yds.
They are a bit expensive here at around $10Aus.

$4 a box here. I'll get out and shoot a few coons and see what happens!


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PP's have always worked the best for me.

Why head shots? knocking that coon out and watching the fight is half the fun. I'm sure the dogs will feel robbed.

According to the yahoo currency converter that comes to $Aus 5.1941 - about half price. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I'd take head shots everytime if I could on coons. We sell the furs at the end of the year and the buyers frown on ones that are full of holes. You can body shoot a coon 20 times and if you don't reach the vitals he aint coming down.

That said, rarely do you get a clean head shot on treed coons. I've killed a ton with power points and they lack penetration for raking shots that are most often presented on treed coons. Hopeing the Velocitors will help bring them down with body shots better than anything else I've tried.

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Just out of curiosity, what is a coon hide getting now days?

Aint sold them yet this year. Last year they brought from $20 down to three or four depending on size and condition.

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Before I start, one caveat: <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> these won't be the same from a pistol, as a rifle.
I recently bought a new CZ LR rimfire, due to all the good things I've heard. I sure havent been disappointed! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> After scoping, I began to gather up all the different types/brands of ammo I could find, and began break-in, chronographing, and accuracy testing.
This rifle's chamber won't accept Stingers, so they weren't tested. I tried everything I was likely to use. A few types were excluded due to price. I ain't gonna spend $5 plus on a 50-round box of .22s. BTW, it has a 22" barrel.
Some shot well, some less so, and some were exceptional. The biggest surprise was CCI's Quick-Shock. Hyper-velocity ammo, like Velocitors, ran in the 1200-1300fps range, maybe a tad more. The Quick-Shock ran better than 1750fps! Those things are like greased lightening! They are also scored inside the hollow-point, and supposed to fragment on impact. Note: a subsequent brick is only doing 1675-1700fps, so things do vary.
I was a bit concerned about penetration on larger varmints. So, when I had a deer hung up for skinning, I took a 25yd shot through the neck, just below the head. I was surprised to get full penetration of the neck vertebra, finding shrapnel under the hide, on the off side. Now no piece found was over maybe 5-10 grains, but the fact that they penetrated the neck musculature and the vertebra at all, reassured me enough.
While they aren't the most accurate round in my rifle, their 1 1/2"- 2" groups at 100yd are good enough. And they pack enough when they get there. I'm sighted about 0.6" low at 25, and dead on at 50, and again at about 75. The 100yd impact is only about 1" to 1 1/4" low. I can live with that.
Sorry for being so long-winded. You can see the chrono data, and groups at:
.22 Group/Velocity Testing
I made no effort to "condition" the barrel to each ammo type. I just fired a group, then went on to the next. I think it would be time well spent for every rimfire shooter. It's the first time I did something like this with a rimfire, and I learned a lot!

Nicely done! I appreciate the great response. Have you killed anything with the quick shocks or Velocitors?

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killed lots of stuff with the velocitors. Mostly ground squirrels, but an occasional blue jay or jack rabbit have been taken. I am used to using stingers for hunting purposes (my 94/22 will accept any kind of ammo) I shot a digger squirrel at around 40 yards in the head. It dun took most of it clean off. Jays were totally anhialated. And jack rabbits had holes in them that surprised me, knowing that they came from a 22lr. I'm not sure but I think that the velocitors are the same as a stinger except with a 40gr bullet. I forget who told me that. I think it was the same guy at the sportin goods store who handed me a winchester m70 when i asked to see the remington m700 next to it.